Podcast Mentions
Usual Cruelty The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
Alec Karakatsanis
From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society's normalization of the caging of human beings, and the role of the legal profession in perpetuating it Alec Karakatsanis is interested in what we choose to punish. For example, it is a crime in most of America for poor p...
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A passage from this book was read aloud, illustrating the harsh realities of the criminal justice system and the disproportionate treatment of those with limited means. It was mentioned that it was written by Jason Flom's son's friend.
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I took my son to a book release party when he released his book called Usual Cruelty.
— Episode: Wrongful Conviction, with Jason Flom
Episode: Wrongful Conviction, with Jason Flom
A passage from this book was read aloud, illustrating the harsh realities of the criminal justice system and the disproportionate treatment of those with limited means. It was mentioned that it was written by Jason Flom's son's friend.
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I took my son to a book release party when he released his book called Usual Cruelty.
This is from Alec's essay that formed the basis of the book, Usual Cruelty.
It's called The Punishment Bureaucracy, How to Think About Criminal Justice Reform.
On January 26, 2014, Charnel Mitchell was sitting on her couch with her one-year-old daughter on her lap and her four-year-old son to her side.
Armed government agents entered her home, put her in metal restraints, took her from her children and brought her to the Montgomery city jail. Jail staff told Charnel that she owed the city money for old traffic tickets.
Episode: Wrongful Conviction, with Jason Flom
It was discussed in the context of the criminal justice system and it formed the basis of a Yale Law Review essay about the punishment bureaucracy.
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I took my son to a book release party when he released his book called Usual Cruelty.
This is from Alec's essay that formed the basis of the book, Usual Cruelty.
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