Sentence examples for general indigent from inspiring English sources

While there is only emerging recognition of the need for indigent defense services for defendants with mentally illness, general indigent defense provisions are typically available across the country, though there is wide variation regarding models of service delivery and quality of services provided (Laurin 2015).

My experience as a doctor treating evacuees from New Orleans at the Dallas Convention Center did not confirm the general impression of masses of poor indigent people.

Along the way he introduces the reader to such colorful characters as demanding medical professors and surgical bosses to indigent patients, who frequented general hospitals' emergency rooms.

Research on indigent defense programs in general is still evolving, and many of the existing studies compare case outcomes of public defenders with privately assigned attorneys (Hartley et al. 2010; Williams 2013; Roach 2014), with no specific examination or measure of how these programs may be applied to those with mental illness.

And he flatly rejects the call by some to increase "general relief" welfare payments for the indigent.

Just two years ago, then-Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged that the country's indigent defense systems were "in a state of crisis".

Then we changed our general policy and, apart from the truly indigent, only accepted patients with their relatives' involvement.

Just two years ago, then-Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged that the country's indigent defense systems were "in a state of crisis". Overworked and poorly prepared attorneys were unable to provide effective representation to those they counsel, in violation of their ethical obligations to provide competent and diligent representation and their clients' rights under the Sixth Amendment.

There is nothing in writing that guarantees the project will keep indigent residents in place, said Lori McLaughlin, general counsel for the Franciscan Sisters management group.

"This case is emblematic of a national crisis in indigent criminal defense," acting Assistant Attorney General Molly Moran said in a statement.

Consumer advocates and lawyers who represent the indigent are never thrilled when the attorney general goes after their clients.