Places with few or no lawyers are called “legal deserts,' and they exist all over the country.
"Many are being detained in civil matters, such as people incarcerated pretrial for immigration cases or those who can’t pay child support or fines and fees," the study said.
“While race and ethnicity data is not comprehensively available for people held in local jails, the available prison population data shows that the growing burden of incarceration is not distributed evenly across women of different races and ethnicities,” the study said. “Black women are imprisoned at rates 1.7 times higher than the state-wide total for women.”
At the task force's first meeting, Legal Services Corp. Board Chair John Levi said, “Expanding access to justice in rural areas faces many barriers."
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