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Gov. Mark Gordon appointed Roden, a 25-year veteran of the Wyoming State Public Defender's Office, to the position on Aug. 5.
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Twenty-two-year-old Lorna Roxanne Green appeared in court Friday morning. A grand jury charged her for setting Wellspring Health Access in Casper on fire last May. The attack delayed the clinic’s opening from June 2022 to April of this year.
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A new report reveals the full picture of correctional control across the United States, including incarceration, probation and parole. Rates of incarceration and supervision vary widely across the Mountain West.
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A new report commissioned by the Interior Department provides a window into the fatal mistreatment of inmates in its tribal jails. The review comes on the heels of a Mountain West News Bureau and NPR investigation that found a pattern of neglect and misconduct contributing to at least 19 deaths at tribal detention centers overseen by the Bureau of Indian Affairs since 2016.
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The Wyoming House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that is intended to close a legal loophole. It classifies use of methamphetamine or narcotics by a pregnant woman as child endangerment.
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Racial disparities are deeply pronounced in state prisons across the nation – and some Western states top the list.
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The Defender Aid Clinic at the University of Wyoming's College of Law is behind a new podcast that dives into the racial disparities in the United States…
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State lawmakers and police are looking for new solutions to a loophole that has long allowed non-Native people some degree of immunity from law…
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Public defenders provide legal representation to people who can't afford private attorneys. They're appointed by a judge to represent those accused of a…
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Already this year, two Wyoming inmates have died from apparent suicide. The incidents have raised questions about the impact of staffing and bed…