Description
| Summary: | "Lawyer Stephen Bright and legal scholar James Kwak offer an overview of how the criminal legal system fails to live up to the values of equality and justice. The book ranges from poor people squeezed for cash by private probation companies because of trivial violations to people executed in violation of the Constitution despite overwhelming evidence of intellectual disability or mental illness. They also show examples from around the country of places that are making progress toward justice"--
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 347 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9781620978047
1620978040 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 5, 2023). |
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