Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
Stevenson, Bryan2014
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A powerful, bold true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix America's broken system of justice - from one of the most influential lawyers of our time. The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. The prison population has increased from 300,000 in the early 1970s to more than two million now. One in every 15 people is expected to go to prison. For black men, the most incarcerated group in America, this figure rises to one out of every three. Bryan Stevenson grew up a member of a poor black community in the racially segregated South. He was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of the US's criminal justice system.
Main title:
Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption / Bryan Stevenson.
Author:
Stevenson, Bryan, author
Imprint:
Melbourne : Scribe, 2014.
Collation:
1 online resource
Notes:
Also issued in print: New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2014.Includes bibliographical references.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 24, 2023).
ISBN:
9781925113570 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
364.973
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1048982