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poor communities. We want to see more diversity in decision-making roles in the justice system. We’re trying to educate people a ...

Chapter Sixteen The Stonecatchers’ Song of Sorrow On May 17 , 2010 , I was sitting in my office waiting anxiously when the U.S. ...

improperly convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in Missouri. His jury was illegally selected, excluding A ...

I was encouraged by the fact that nationwide the rate of mass incarceration had finally slowed. For the first time in close to f ...

constant threat created by violently enforced racial hierarchy were profoundly traumatizing for African Americans. Absorbing the ...

I was also encouraged by our new staff. We were now attracting young, gifted lawyers from all over the country who are extremely ...

for inmates to be seriously injured, losing fingers or limbs, after working long hours in brutal and dangerous conditions. For y ...

constitutionally acceptable sentence. Because Mr. Carter and Mr. Caston had both been in prison for nearly fifty years, we wante ...

midnight and give them bus fare to New Orleans or a city of their choice in Louisiana. We dispatched staff to Angola, which was ...

hurting could lean on.” She looped her arm with mine. I smiled at her. “That’s really wonderful.” “It has been wonderful. What’s ...

continued. “But you keep singing. Your songs will make you strong. They might even make you happy.” People buzzed down the busy ...

Epilogue Walter died on September 11 , 2013. He remained kind and charming until the very end, despite his increasing confusion ...

looked troubled. “This, right here, is a whole ’nother kind of situation. Guys on the row talk about what they’re going to do be ...

thought about the fact that no one was ever prosecuted for Ronda Morrison’s murder after Walter’s release. I thought about the a ...

In memory of Alice Golden Stevenson, my mom ...

Acknowledgments I want to thank the hundreds of accused, convicted, and imprisoned men, women, and children with whom I have wor ...

Author’s Note With more than two million incarcerated people in the United States, an additional six million people on probation ...

Notes INTRODUCTION 1 One in every fifteen people born ... Thomas P. Bonczar, “Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Population, ...

or some felony offenders. Thirty-five prohibit parolees from voting, and thirty-one prohibit those on probation from voting. The ...

CHAPTER ONE: MOCKINGBIRD PLAYERS 1 Thirteen of the state’s sixteen pulp and paper mills ... Conner Bailey, Peter Sinclair, John ...