New Thinking, from the Center for Justice Innovation podcast

Gideon at 60: Uncivil Justice

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A profile of the fight to secure lawyers for people facing eviction and the radical impact that is having in Housing Court. With its 1963 Gideon decision, the Supreme Court guaranteed a lawyer to any poor person facing prison time. For criminal cases, the decision was both sweeping and critically incomplete. On the civil side, the campaign for a right-to-counsel is taking a different approach—it's slow and piecemeal, but it's also working. This is the second episode in our series on the legacy of the Gideon decision. Hear the first episode here. Full show notes

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