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Review Praise for�Usual Cruelty:��Usual Cruelty lays out a compelling and damning argument that lawyers play a central role in rendering the criminal legal system unjust. . . . [Its] exposition of �the chasm between the law as it is written and the law as it is lived� should be familiar to all lawyers, as should the pursuit of eliminating that chasm.��Slate �Alec Karakatsanis puts �human caging� and �wealth-based detention� in America on trial.��Harvard Magazine �A fiery indictment of America�s criminal justice system [and a] provocative cri de coeur.��Publishers Weekly �Alec Karakatsanis is a leading voice in the legal struggle to dismantle mass incarceration, this century�s defining civil rights issue. What he says cannot be ignored.��James Forman, Jr., Pulitzer Prize�winning author of Locking Up Our Own�A devastating indictment of the legal profession by one of our most important young lawyers, Usual Cruelty cuts to the core of what is critical to understand about our legal system, and about ourselves.�Every law student and lawyer should read this book.��Anthony D. Romero, executive director, ACLU�There is no better way to understand vital and often successful challenges to the system, and to the dehumanization of individuals that permits it, than to read this searing, searching, and eloquent book by Alec Karakatsanis.��Martha Minow, former dean, Harvard Law School, and author of When Should Law Forgive?�Alec Karakatsanis asks a difficult question: What do we do when defense attorneys, prosecutors, judges, legislators, and our fellow citizens make the most profound of injustices possible? The question is a worthy one. If to be sworn to uphold the law is not enough, to read this book, too, is simply not enough. May action follow.��Reginald Dwayne Betts, poet, lawyer, and author of the poetry collection Felon�Usual Cruelty offers a provocative indictment of the legal profession�s role in perpetuating a justice system rife with structural racism and indignity. With compassion and acuity, Karakatsanis lays bare the devastating harms of mass incarceration and the bureaucracy that sustains it. He exhorts the reader to think carefully about the gap between our constitutional ideals and the lived realities of communities�and what that says about our society and ourselves.��Vanita Gupta, president and CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Read more About the Author A former public defender, Alec Karakatsanis is the founder of the Civil Rights Corps, an organization designed to advocate for racial justice and bring systemic civil rights cases on behalf of impoverished people. He was named the 2016 Trial Lawyer of the Year by Public Justice and was awarded the Stephen B. Bright Award for contributions to indigent defense in the South by Gideon�s Promise. He lives in Washington, DC. Read more
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