Kansas Holistic Defenders

Our Mission:
To defend Kansans effectively, zealously, and respectfully. We're building interdisciplinary, holistic, public defense in Douglas County KS

[Kansas Holistic Defenders @KHDefenders]

Get to know Kansas Holistic Defenders! (Part 1) Learn more in our linktree!

[Kansas Holistic Defenders @KHDefenders]

Our community needs a social worker now more than ever—to tackle the root causes of people entering the legal system.

Show your support for adding this role to KHD at the county budget meeting.

📅 10 AM • Tuesday, July 8
📍 Douglas County Courthouse

[Kansas Holistic Defenders @KHDefenders]

Wear yellow and show your support for KHD at our county budget meeting!
📅 10 AM • Tuesday, July 8
📍 Douglas County Courthouse

[Kansas Holistic Defenders @KHDefenders]

Part 2!

[Kansas Holistic Defenders @KHDefenders]

We are excited to share a major win for Kansas tenants! In a recent case, Kansas Court of Appeals affirmed that tenants CANNOT waive their rights to safe housing.

What now? Know your rights. Speak up. And if you need someone in your corner, find defenders who fight like KHD.

[Kansas Holistic Defenders @KHDefenders]

Part 2

[Kansas Holistic Defenders @KHDefenders]

Get to know Kansas Holistic Defenders! (Part 1) Learn more in our linktree!

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

This Black Friday, you'll probably notice the effects of inflation on price tags. What might not be so obvious though is its effect on the criminal legal system.

Each year, inflation makes the system more punitive – and that's not a good deal.

https://t.co/8zJjmZ2Azk

[Brad Haywood @BradleyRHaywood]

Defenders (esp. the newer ones): the clients you got out on bond this week are having Thanksgiving dinner with their friends, families, churches, etc thanks to your hard work & dedication. I am thankful for you & hope you know the difference you’re making in the lives of others.

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

Just a reminder – regardless of what misinformation might be spewed at the dinner table today:

Data shows that crime is not skyrocketing. It's actually at historically low levels.

[Jennifer Roth @JenniferRothKS]

“[T]he [KBI] recommended an appropriation of $500,000 to address shortcomings in a computer system used to track offenders.”

💡hey, #ksleg: decrease penalties for registration noncompliance. I have two clients whose prison sentences combined is costing taxpayers more than $500k.

[National Police Accountability Project @NPAPjustice]

Criminalizing unhoused people for existing in public space (when they have nowhere else to go) often traps them in a cycle of arrest and release that is a waste of state resources equivalent to what could be spent on housing, health & support.

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

Let's talk turkey: more birds have been pardoned from dinner plates in the US than people have been granted clemency from federal death row.

And today @POTUS will pardon 2 more – with ZERO mention of saving the 40 people facing death at the federal level.

[Reductress @Reductress]

Brilliant Legal Mind? Gossiping Woman Throws in ‘Allegedly’: https://t.co/xxRPIK23NF

[Kansas Holistic Defenders @KHDefenders]

Our office building is also a polling location. We could hear election workers clap & cheer each 1st time voter 🥰 during KHD business hours, they celebrated at least 26 times for those exercising their constitutional right to vote for the very first time! 🫡

[алёу @allleuu]

young thug and his lawyer’s moment for the history books

[Douglas County, KS @douglascountyks]

The Criminal Justice Coordinating Council is seeking the community’s input through this survey: https://t.co/ZYXTxmzvsW
The deadline to participate is 5 PM Monday, Nov. 4.
More info: https://t.co/8flMYAjNnL

@lawrenceks @baldwincityks @CityofEudora @LawrenceKS_PD @DGSOSheriff

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

The execution of Marcellus Williams is a horrible injustice. This didn’t have to happen. Just a couple weeks ago, prosecutors—with the support of the victim’s family—had reached a plea agreement with Marcellus that took death off the table.

[Innocence Project @innocence]

On Tuesday night, the state of Missouri executed Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams.

He died because the people who could and should have prevented his death, each for their own reasons, chose to look the other way.

https://t.co/tprRuBsaqL

[ACLU of Kansas @aclukansas]

As our technology advances, so should we. We echo Justice Eric Rosen's concerns regarding deep fake technology in the hands of our law enforcement.