Neighborhood Defender Service provides the highest quality legal representation through community-based, holistic public defense.

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Albert Woodfox on Organizing Against Mass Incarceration
NDS' Ayami Hatanaka Testifies to City Council on SCR Hearings
Conversations with NDS 2019

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The Power of Public Defense

An introduction to Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, (NDS) an innovative, community-based, holistic public defense practice in Northern Manhattan.