Public Justice Center Inc

The national coalition for a civil right to counsel (nccrc) seeks to ensure individuals have a right to effective counsel when facing the loss of their basic human needs in the civil legal system, such as housing, child custody, domestic violence, civil incarceration, and mental health. We work nationally to accomplish this by envisioning and advocating for the right to counsel and educating about the right to counsel.

The workplace justice project advances justice and equity for maryland workers by defending and expanding workers' rights based on the principle of worker power. We focus on low-wage, high-violation industries where black and immigrant workers predominate and collaborate with community partners to ensure that those we serve determine our priorities. We provide know-your-rights education to empower and learn from workers, represent workers in wage-theft and other litigation, and advocate to change policies that maintain racial and economic inequity.

The education stability project seeks to advance race equity, improve student achievement, and prevent involvement with the criminal legal system in maryland public schools by combattingthe illegal and excessive use of suspension, expulsion, school-based policing, and otherforms of school pushout that disproportionately target black and brown students. We envision a school system in which directly-impacted students and families are empowered to build safe and supportive school environments for all.the health and benefits equity project advocates to protect and expand access to health care and safety net services for marylanders struggling to make ends meet. We support policies and practices that are designed to eliminate racial and ethnic inequities and enable every marylander to attain their highest level of health.the appellate advocacy project advocates in appellate courts to influence the development of civil rights and poverty law. We represent individuals whose cases can reform the law and write friend-of-the-court briefs (also known as amicus briefs) in appeals to help judges understand the impact of their decisions on people with low incomes and communities of color.the prisoners' rights project aims to eliminate pretrial detention to the extent possible; to eliminate unnecessary arrests and detentions that disrupt and destabilize families and communities; and to end pretrial practices that have a disparate impact on people and communities of color.