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Carol Erskine

The Call for a Federal Probe

Carol Erskine June 4, 2025

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The CPCS Mission: "Defending the People of Massachusetts." Just not the children. Let’s hope the Inspector General will now review the CPCS Family and Child division. The Office of the Child Advocate criticized the CPCS agency for their failures in Harmony Montgomery's case and

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The Inspector General's scathing report on the Massachusetts CPCS public defense bar couldn't be more accurate. As they always do, they deny, deny and deny. But I saw it myself for years and every word is true. More concerning is the Child and family

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Mass. inspector general reports public defender system is 'broken'

The report said the system has long been in need of reform and that issues were not properly addressed after l...

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