The Brennan Center released a new report identifying three common sense proposals to revive the right to counsel for poor defendants in criminal cases. The report was released at a roundtable discussion at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, co-hosted by The New Press, to mark the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright. “The routine denial of effective legal representation for poor defendants, coupled with the over-criminalization of petty offenses, feeds our mass incarceration problem at great social and economic costs,” reads the report, co-written by Thomas Giovanni and Roopal Patel. The event also featured Karen Houppert, author of “Chasing Gideon.”