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How language barriers compound injustice in legal proceedings

I'm a court interpreter and I see defendants who don't understand what's happening to them every day but the lawyers rush through everything like their lives don't matter.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Linguistic exclusion is rendering due process meaningless for vulnerable populations.

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