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and shed light on American injustice within its institutions and society.
Wrongful Convictions
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist
- A True Story of Injustice in the American South
- De: Radley Balko, Tucker Carrington, John Grisham - foreword
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
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In The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington write a true story of Southern Gothic horror - of two innocent men wrongly convicted of vicious crimes and the legally condoned failures that allowed it to happen. Balko and Carrington will shine a light on the institutional and professional failures that allowed this tragic, astonishing story to happen, identify where it may have happened elsewhere, and show how to prevent it from happening again.
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Gothic Horror-Show, With A Few Digressions
- De Gillian en 03-01-18
A master class in nonfiction writing
In Mississippi, where the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow still looms large, two men, armed with phony forensics, manipulated the judicial system for decades. As a result, scores of individuals were wrongfully convicted – and only a small number of them have been exonerated to this day. Listening to this book, riveted, I learned how much of our collective understanding of the “science” behind blood splatter and bite-mark analysis is just plain wrong. Balko and Tucker truly opened my eyes to how broken our criminal justice system is, at a most basic level, all across the nation. This is a master class in nonfiction writing that weaves narrative elements with wide-lens historical details, leading you down a path to real-life action on the learnings. We predict a donation to the Innocence Project the second you finish listening.
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Anatomy of Innocence
- Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
- De: Laura Caldwell - editor, Leslie S. Klinger - editor
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot, Scott Aiello, Sarah Naughton, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions. Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity. But few people understand just how or why they happen and, more important, the immeasurable consequences that often haunt the lucky few who are acquitted years after they are proven innocent.
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great collection of life changing moments
- De Steph Mac en 05-27-17
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The Sun Does Shine
- Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection
- De: Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin, Bryan Stevenson - foreword
- Narrado por: Bryan Stevenson - foreword, Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only 29 years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with an incompetent defense attorney and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in despairing silence.
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DOWN WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!!!
- De MUDDBONE en 04-29-18
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Picking Cotton
- Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
- De: Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Erin Torneo, Ronald Cotton
- Narrado por: Richard Allen, Karen White
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape and eventually identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken - but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After 11 years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed.
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Listen for the story not the writing
- De Professor Sombrero en 06-13-09
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Stolen Years
- Stories of the Wrongfully Imprisoned
- De: Reuven Fenton
- Narrado por: Will Damron, JD Jackson, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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Historia
There is a grisly murder in your neighborhood. You stand outside with your neighbors and watch, or maybe you peek out your curtains. Hours pass, then days, maybe years. Then one day there is a knock at your door, and the police take you in for questioning. Do you remember what happened? Do you have an alibi? Can you take countless hours of interrogation without breaking? This can happen to you. And it happens to more people than you think.
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Think This Can't Happen to You?
- De Jami en 04-16-18
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Actual Innocence
- De: Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, Jim Dwyer
- Narrado por: Michael Boatman
- Duración: 5 h y 8 m
- Versión resumida
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A nightmare from a thousand B-movies: A horrible crime is committed in your neighborhood, and the police knock on your door. A witness swears you are the perpetrator; you have no alibi, and no one believes your declarations of innocence. You are convicted, sentenced to hard time in a maximum-security prison, or even death row. Actual Innocence examines this real-life nightmare.
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Hard To Believe
- De James P Carter en 04-05-10
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Convicting the Innocent
- Death Row and America's Broken System of Justice
- De: Stanley Cohen
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
Every day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives - either by decades-long sentences or the death penalty itself. Injustice tarnishes our legal process from start to finish. From the racial discrimination and violence used by backwards law enforcement officers, to a prison culture that breeds inmate conflict, there is opportunity for error at every turn.
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Wow this gives you a different view
- De Gudrun en 08-19-16
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Anatomy of Innocence
- Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
- De: Laura Caldwell - editor, Leslie S. Klinger - editor
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot, Scott Aiello, Sarah Naughton, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions. Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity. But few people understand just how or why they happen and, more important, the immeasurable consequences that often haunt the lucky few who are acquitted years after they are proven innocent.
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great collection of life changing moments
- De Steph Mac en 05-27-17
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The Sun Does Shine
- Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection
- De: Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin, Bryan Stevenson - foreword
- Narrado por: Bryan Stevenson - foreword, Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only 29 years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with an incompetent defense attorney and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in despairing silence.
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DOWN WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!!!
- De MUDDBONE en 04-29-18
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Picking Cotton
- Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
- De: Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Erin Torneo, Ronald Cotton
- Narrado por: Richard Allen, Karen White
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape and eventually identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken - but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After 11 years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed.
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Listen for the story not the writing
- De Professor Sombrero en 06-13-09
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Stolen Years
- Stories of the Wrongfully Imprisoned
- De: Reuven Fenton
- Narrado por: Will Damron, JD Jackson, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Historia
There is a grisly murder in your neighborhood. You stand outside with your neighbors and watch, or maybe you peek out your curtains. Hours pass, then days, maybe years. Then one day there is a knock at your door, and the police take you in for questioning. Do you remember what happened? Do you have an alibi? Can you take countless hours of interrogation without breaking? This can happen to you. And it happens to more people than you think.
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Think This Can't Happen to You?
- De Jami en 04-16-18
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Actual Innocence
- De: Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, Jim Dwyer
- Narrado por: Michael Boatman
- Duración: 5 h y 8 m
- Versión resumida
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
A nightmare from a thousand B-movies: A horrible crime is committed in your neighborhood, and the police knock on your door. A witness swears you are the perpetrator; you have no alibi, and no one believes your declarations of innocence. You are convicted, sentenced to hard time in a maximum-security prison, or even death row. Actual Innocence examines this real-life nightmare.
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Hard To Believe
- De James P Carter en 04-05-10
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Convicting the Innocent
- Death Row and America's Broken System of Justice
- De: Stanley Cohen
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
Every day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives - either by decades-long sentences or the death penalty itself. Injustice tarnishes our legal process from start to finish. From the racial discrimination and violence used by backwards law enforcement officers, to a prison culture that breeds inmate conflict, there is opportunity for error at every turn.
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Wow this gives you a different view
- De Gudrun en 08-19-16
Prison Reform
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American Prison
- A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
- De: Shane Bauer
- Narrado por: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for nine dollars an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough and wrote an exposé about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War.
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Disgusting
- De Frank en 09-23-18
The Business of Punishment
Shane Bauer, an award-winning investigative journalist who famously spent two years imprisoned in Iran, got a job as a corrections officer in a privately owned prison for an investigation, and it took four months before he was figured out (even though the most basic background check would’ve outed him immediately). That is just a small example of the kind of oversight and bad work Shane describes in this book. Over the course of his stint hiding in plain sight as a prison guard, Bauer witnessed the true ugliness of the for-profit business of privately owned and operated prisons. Along with detailing his experience there, he also explores the horrible, but sadly true, history of these institutions in our country that began as a new legal
form of slavery after the Civil War and, the author argues, still function the same way. American Prison won’t leave you feeling great and hopeful about our country’s institutions, but it’s a listen that’s worth your attention.
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The New Jim Crow
- Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition
- De: Michelle Alexander
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 16 h y 57 m
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Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times best seller list.
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Shocking, Important and Brilliant
- De Tim en 10-06-14
Democracy in peril
This is one of those books that has changed the national conversation—showing how mass incarceration has led to the systematic disenfranchisement of black and brown citizens putting our very democracy in peril.
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Just Mercy
- A Story of Justice and Redemption
- De: Bryan Stevenson
- Narrado por: Bryan Stevenson
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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Bryan Stevenson 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 our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.
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Made me question justice, peers and myself.
- De Kristy VL en 04-17-15
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Locked In
- The True Causes of Mass Incarceration - and How to Achieve Real Reform
- De: John F. Pfaff
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country. Having spent 15 years studying the data on imprisonment, John Pfaff takes apart the reigning consensus created by Michelle Alexander and other reformers, revealing that the most widely accepted explanations - the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons - tell us much less than we think.
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The true causes of Mass Incarceration
- De Ekaterinya Vladinakova en 04-17-20
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Punishment Without Crime
- How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
- De: Alexandra Natapoff
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense system that produces over 13 million cases each year.
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This Book Should Be A Required Read For All
- De Anonymous User en 08-08-19
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Beyond These Walls
- Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
- De: Tony Platt
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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Beyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the United States, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration, and offers a bold vision for a new future. Author Tony Platt, a recognized authority in the field of criminal justice, challenges the way we think about how and why millions of people are tracked, arrested, incarcerated, catalogued, and regulated in the United States.
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Having a hard time caring about Black Lives Matter?
- De Mary M. en 09-01-20
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A Colony in a Nation
- De: Chris Hayes
- Narrado por: Chris Hayes
- Duración: 5 h
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Emmy Award-winning news anchor and New York Times best-selling author Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation. America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, but nearly every empirical measure - wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation - reveals that racial inequality hasn't improved since 1968.
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So much to this book!
- De Crystal Broadnax en 04-18-17
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Charged
- The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
- De: Emily Bazelon
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
Charged follows the story of two young people caught up in the criminal justice system: Kevin, a 20-year-old in Brooklyn who picked up his friend’s gun as the cops burst in and was charged with a serious violent felony, and Noura, a teenage girl in Memphis indicted for the murder of her mother. Bazelon tracks both cases - from arrest and charging to trial and sentencing - and with her trademark blend of deeply reported narrative, legal analysis, and investigative journalism illustrates just how criminal prosecutions can go wrong and, more important, why they don’t have to.
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For any fan of wrongful conviction podcasts
- De L. H. Arnold en 05-13-19
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Just Mercy
- A Story of Justice and Redemption
- De: Bryan Stevenson
- Narrado por: Bryan Stevenson
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
Bryan Stevenson 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 our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.
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Made me question justice, peers and myself.
- De Kristy VL en 04-17-15
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Locked In
- The True Causes of Mass Incarceration - and How to Achieve Real Reform
- De: John F. Pfaff
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country. Having spent 15 years studying the data on imprisonment, John Pfaff takes apart the reigning consensus created by Michelle Alexander and other reformers, revealing that the most widely accepted explanations - the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons - tell us much less than we think.
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The true causes of Mass Incarceration
- De Ekaterinya Vladinakova en 04-17-20
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Punishment Without Crime
- How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
- De: Alexandra Natapoff
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense system that produces over 13 million cases each year.
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This Book Should Be A Required Read For All
- De Anonymous User en 08-08-19
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Beyond These Walls
- Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
- De: Tony Platt
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
Beyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the United States, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration, and offers a bold vision for a new future. Author Tony Platt, a recognized authority in the field of criminal justice, challenges the way we think about how and why millions of people are tracked, arrested, incarcerated, catalogued, and regulated in the United States.
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Having a hard time caring about Black Lives Matter?
- De Mary M. en 09-01-20
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A Colony in a Nation
- De: Chris Hayes
- Narrado por: Chris Hayes
- Duración: 5 h
- Versión completa
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Historia
Emmy Award-winning news anchor and New York Times best-selling author Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation. America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, but nearly every empirical measure - wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation - reveals that racial inequality hasn't improved since 1968.
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So much to this book!
- De Crystal Broadnax en 04-18-17
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Charged
- The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
- De: Emily Bazelon
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Historia
Charged follows the story of two young people caught up in the criminal justice system: Kevin, a 20-year-old in Brooklyn who picked up his friend’s gun as the cops burst in and was charged with a serious violent felony, and Noura, a teenage girl in Memphis indicted for the murder of her mother. Bazelon tracks both cases - from arrest and charging to trial and sentencing - and with her trademark blend of deeply reported narrative, legal analysis, and investigative journalism illustrates just how criminal prosecutions can go wrong and, more important, why they don’t have to.
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For any fan of wrongful conviction podcasts
- De L. H. Arnold en 05-13-19
Penned in Prison
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Solitary
- Unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope.
- De: Albert Woodfox
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 16 h y 12 m
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Historia
Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement - in a six-foot by nine-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana - all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary endurance against the violence and deprivation he faced daily. That he was able to emerge whole from his odyssey within America’s prison and judicial systems is a triumph of the human spirit, and makes his book a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement....
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An eye opener!
- De Ellen Gilmartin en 05-25-19
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Cherry
- A Novel
- De: Nico Walker
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
In this “miracle of literary serendipity” (The Washington Post), after finding himself deep in the thrall of heroin addiction, the soldier arrives at what seems like the only logical solution: robbing banks. Written by a singularly talented, wildly imaginative debut novelist, Cherry is a bracingly funny and unexpectedly tender work of fiction straight from the dark heart of America.
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being an ex-junky is much cooler than being a junky
- De K Sabatini en 09-02-18
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Life After Death
- De: Damien Echols
- Narrado por: Damien Echols
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
The definitive memoir by Damien Echols of the "West Memphis Three", who was falsely convicted of committing three murders. Hear this unforgettable account of his 18 years on death row.
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A Living Poem
- De Kelli Perkins en 05-22-13
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The Graybar Hotel
- Stories
- De: Curtis Dawkins
- Narrado por: Pete Simonelli
- Duración: 4 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
In Curtis Dawkins' first short story collection, he offers a window into prison life through the eyes of his narrators and their cellmates. Dawkins reveals the idiosyncrasies, tedium, and desperation of long-term incarceration - he describes men who struggle to keep their souls alive despite the challenges they face.
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Rang with truthful perspectives
- De alec en 07-25-17
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Shantaram
- A Novel
- De: Gregory David Roberts
- Narrado por: Humphrey Bower
- Duración: 42 h y 59 m
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An escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter the city’s hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.
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Probably the best performance I've listened to.
- De Mickey en 04-15-14
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
- De: Nelson Mandela
- Narrado por: Atandwa Kani
- Duración: 20 h y 12 m
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Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, 44-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next 27 years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most memorably, his courageous wife, Winnie, and his five children. Now, 255 of these letters, a majority of which were previously unpublished, provide the most intimate portrait of Mandela since Long Walk to Freedom.
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Enlightening thinking of South African Icon
- De Shopper en 08-12-18
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Solitary
- Unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope.
- De: Albert Woodfox
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 16 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement - in a six-foot by nine-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana - all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary endurance against the violence and deprivation he faced daily. That he was able to emerge whole from his odyssey within America’s prison and judicial systems is a triumph of the human spirit, and makes his book a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement....
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An eye opener!
- De Ellen Gilmartin en 05-25-19
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Cherry
- A Novel
- De: Nico Walker
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
In this “miracle of literary serendipity” (The Washington Post), after finding himself deep in the thrall of heroin addiction, the soldier arrives at what seems like the only logical solution: robbing banks. Written by a singularly talented, wildly imaginative debut novelist, Cherry is a bracingly funny and unexpectedly tender work of fiction straight from the dark heart of America.
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being an ex-junky is much cooler than being a junky
- De K Sabatini en 09-02-18
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Life After Death
- De: Damien Echols
- Narrado por: Damien Echols
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
The definitive memoir by Damien Echols of the "West Memphis Three", who was falsely convicted of committing three murders. Hear this unforgettable account of his 18 years on death row.
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A Living Poem
- De Kelli Perkins en 05-22-13
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The Graybar Hotel
- Stories
- De: Curtis Dawkins
- Narrado por: Pete Simonelli
- Duración: 4 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
In Curtis Dawkins' first short story collection, he offers a window into prison life through the eyes of his narrators and their cellmates. Dawkins reveals the idiosyncrasies, tedium, and desperation of long-term incarceration - he describes men who struggle to keep their souls alive despite the challenges they face.
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Rang with truthful perspectives
- De alec en 07-25-17
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Shantaram
- A Novel
- De: Gregory David Roberts
- Narrado por: Humphrey Bower
- Duración: 42 h y 59 m
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An escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter the city’s hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.
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Probably the best performance I've listened to.
- De Mickey en 04-15-14
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
- De: Nelson Mandela
- Narrado por: Atandwa Kani
- Duración: 20 h y 12 m
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Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, 44-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next 27 years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most memorably, his courageous wife, Winnie, and his five children. Now, 255 of these letters, a majority of which were previously unpublished, provide the most intimate portrait of Mandela since Long Walk to Freedom.
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Enlightening thinking of South African Icon
- De Shopper en 08-12-18
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Finding Tess
- A Mother’s Search for Answers in a Dopesick America
- De: Beth Macy
- Narrado por: Beth Macy
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
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On Christmas Eve, 2017, Tess Henry was found dead in a dumpster in Las Vegas. Tess was a 28-year-old new mother, a former honor roll student, and a high school basketball player from suburban Roanoke, Virginia, a place ravaged by the national opioid crisis. The New York Times best-selling author Beth Macy chronicled Tess and her mom, Patricia, through Tess' harrowing, years-long battle to recover from heroin addiction in her award-winning book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America.
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Exhausting and heartbreaking
- De Sda en 04-08-20
Gutting, gripping, and utterly necessary
With 2.6 million suffering from opioid addiction and 90 opioid–addicted individuals dying each day, it’s not hard to find someone whose life has been touched by the crisis . What is rare is the ability to hear this story told via the tremendously meticulous reporting and intimate storytelling of Beth Macy’s caliber. Finding Tess is the continuation of the work Macy did in her widely acclaimed 2018 work, Dopesick, and features the actual voice (and prophetic words) of its titular character. Haunting sound design and richly reported details propel the world inhabited by Tess, a former honor-roll athlete who, after a routine trip to urgent care for a bought of bronchitis, began a struggle with addiction and homelessness that would dominate the rest of her life. It is gutting, gripping, and utterly necessary listening.