An article I found in The New York Times talks about new legal help for those arrested in Chicago. Cook County Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans plan allows for those arrested in Chicago to have proper representation before their court appearance. According to Chief Judge Evans, "attorneys from the organization and the Cook County public defender's office will send attorneys to police stations or designate a volunteer private attorney to do so at the public defender's office request"(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, 2017). Furthermore, a great point in this article is that the younger people arrested may not understand their rights and what they encompass. This allows for those younger people to meet with a lawyer and discuss their rights and better understand them before trial. In my opinion, this is a great program. The city of Chicago has a vast amount of excessive force cases and civil rights violations and this is a new platform to serve justice to those involved. Ultimately, everyone is entitled to justice.
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