Surviving prison as an innocent person is a surreal nightmare no one wants to think about. But it can happen to you. Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison. With You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent, he offers up-close accounts of the cases he has fought, embedding them within […]
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Books: Ultimate Price – The Value We Place on Life, by Howard Steven Friedman
May 4, 2020 – How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underlie these price tags are often buried in technical language, yet they influence our economy, laws, behaviors, policies, health, and safety. These price tags are often unfair, infused as […]
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Books: Baby Jails: The Fight to End the Incarceration of Refugee Children in America
Jan. 20, 2020 – “I worked in a trailer that ICE had set aside for conversations between the women and the attorneys. While we talked, their children, most of whom seemed to be between three and eight years old, played with a few toys on the floor. It was hard for me to get my […]
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Books: Baby Jails – The Fight to End the Incarceration of Refugee Children in America, by Philip G. Schrag
November 4, 2019 – Philip G. Schrag is the Delaney Family Professor of Public Interest Law at Georgetown University and the author or coauthor of 16 books, including Asylum Denied. “I worked in a trailer that ICE had set aside for conversations between the women and the attorneys. While we talked, their children, most of whom […]