Our legal aid organization keeps losing wrongful conviction cases because we're understaffed and under-resourced, but the board wants us to take on more cases to show impact for funders, and we're burning out trying to serve people who've already been failed by the system once.
More people experience this than they realize.
The tension between organizational survival and ethical service delivery is forcing compromises that mirror the systemic failures they're meant to address.
“Where Are You with Wrongful conviction and structural failure?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.