You may think jail is a place for convicted criminals. You would be wrong. In San Francisco, 85 percent of the roughly 1,300 inmates in county jail haven’t been convicted of anything. That’s more than 1,000 men and women. They are there not because they have been found guilty but because they simply cannot afford...Read More

What happens when a juror lies about his or her past during jury selection? Read Jeff Adachi's op-ed for the Daily Journal.Read More

Some California counties are using a legal loophole to lock up truant youth — sometimes in solitary confinement.Read More

SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi makes the case against SB 794 in a Daily Journal op-ed.Read More

Shrinking juries to save money is no bargain, Jeff Adachi argues in this op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle.Read More

Read Public Defender Jeff Adachi's San Francisco Chronicle Op-Ed on the Chronic Inebriate Court .Read More