The package endorsed by the Legislature's budget committee does not boost funding the state's indigent legal services program because state officials found existing funds to increase pay for participating attorneys.
The package endorsed by the Legislature's budget committee does not boost funding the state's indigent legal services program because state officials found existing funds to increase pay for participating attorneys.
Members of a legislative committee have voted unanimously to give an additional $6 million to the state agency that provides attorneys to low-income criminal defendants.
UPDATE: ROCKLAND (Jan. 13) A Knox County Jail guard who allegedly assaulted a female inmate is now free on bail after a judge lowered the amount at a hearing while the state filed additional charges against the man. Andre Elbreisus, 41, of.