[PDF] Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System Writen By Alec Karakatsanis

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Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System

By : Alec Karakatsanis

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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 very interested in what we choose to punish. For example, it is a crime in most of America for poor people to wager in the streets over dice; dice-wagerers can be seized, searched, have their assets forfeited, and be locked in cages. It?s perfectly fine, by contrast, for people to wager over international currencies, mortgages, or the global supply of wheat; wheat-wagerers become names on the wings of hospitals and museums.He is also very concerned about how the bail system, meant to ensure that people return for court dates, has morphed into a way to lock up poor people who have not been convicted of anything. He?s so concerned about this that he has personally sued court systems across the country, resulting in literally tens of thousands of people being released from jail when

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Author : Alec Karakatsanis

Pages : pages

Publisher : Tantor Audio

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : B085ZCR35W

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