Last week, Illinois Prison Project won medical release for a terminally ill client. We are thrilled for him and his family, but devastated for our two clients who were denied. We've made progress implementing this life/money saving law, but have a really long way to go.

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In the popular imagination, public defenders accompany their clients to the very end, even once incarcerated. But the reality is that indigent defense stops at the prison gate.

The gravity of mass incarceration demands legal representation to go above and beyond, writes Jennifer Soble.