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American Injustice: Inside Stories from the Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System
From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflixs The Staircase comes a "stellarand often shockingreport on a broken criminal justice system." (Kirkus, Starred Review) In the past thirty years alone, more than 2,800 innocent American prisoners their combined sentences surpassing 25,000 years have been exonerated and freed after being condemned for crimes they did not commit. Terrifyingly, this number represents only a fraction of the actual number of persons wrongfully accused and convicted over the same period. Read more