The Lubbock Private Defenders Office, a 501(c) non-profit corporation, administers and promotes quality, ethical, and effective criminal defense and mental health services to indigent adults facing a loss of liberty, thereby protecting the fair administration of justice. This type of program provides jurisdictions with an option for delivering quality indigent defense services that affords more direct oversight and accountability of the defense function. It also relieves the judiciary of the administrative burdens of managing indigent defense. It has some of the benefits of a public defender office but relies on the private bar to provide direct client services.