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Big Fees For The Big Easy's Poorest Defendants

By Joseph Shapiro
Published May 20, 2014 at 4:27 PM EDT

In the next installment of an NPR investigation, Joseph Shapiro goes to New Orleans to look at the ways poor people are charged for their public defender in court.

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Joseph Shapiro
Joseph Shapiro is a NPR News Investigations correspondent.
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