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1000000/5 stars. When I first heard about prison reform, I was so confused. Why should we help them if they’ve hurt others? Who says they deserve it? I was naive, for what reason do we feel the right to kill others? This book, although I began reading in high school and never finished, is powerful beyond measure. What values do we have as a society if we are constantly in a state of grief and revenge? How do we accept this, when there’s communities targeted by the criminal justice system, wanting to take them and imprison them for life?
Bryan Stevenson believes in giving mercy to those who don’t want it, won’t accept it, who need it. His anecdotes of wrongful convictions, excessive punishment, and class struggle to the unfair system is more than enough to convince someone the death penalty is never worth it, there’s better things we can do with our time and our resources to help those incarcerated or affected by it.
Bryan Stevenson believes in giving mercy to those who don’t want it, won’t accept it, who need it. His anecdotes of wrongful convictions, excessive punishment, and class struggle to the unfair system is more than enough to convince someone the death penalty is never worth it, there’s better things we can do with our time and our resources to help those incarcerated or affected by it.
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Equally riveting and upsetting. I had wanted to read it so I could see the movie without feeling like I didn’t have the full picture, but the book really does the story such justice, I don’t know if I “need” to see there movie. An important look into how broken and unwilling to change our “””justice””” system is. More people need to hear it.
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One of the best nonfiction books I’ve read in ages. Challenging material, but the author’s focus on hope is inspiring.
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A profound, heartbreaking, inspiring book about the many ways our criminal justice system fails people - especially people of color - and the people fighting to help fix our broken system. I learned so many things I didn’t know about the criminal justice system in other states - including that some states try children as adults for no reason other than feeling like it. It was sad to read about the many ways the system fails people and doesn’t work, but hopeful and uplifting to read about people like Stevenson who are trying to do right by people wronged by the system. I highly recommend this book for a deeper understanding of systemic racism and the ways that people of color and poor people are harmed by our criminal justice system.
Bryan Stevenson founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice d dedicated to defending the poor, the wrongly condemned, and those convicted as adolescents to life in prison.
This book is very well written and easy to follow. The stories of the people in prison and on death row is gut-wrenching and will make your stomach turn. The senseless convictions based on deep-rooted racism and white supremacy will make your blood boil.
I encourage everyone to read this book!
This book is very well written and easy to follow. The stories of the people in prison and on death row is gut-wrenching and will make your stomach turn. The senseless convictions based on deep-rooted racism and white supremacy will make your blood boil.
I encourage everyone to read this book!
This book was an incredibly difficult read. I frequently had to remind myself that these were true stories that it occurred in the not so distant past. I cried a lot and was incredibly angry a lot but there is also lots of hope in there. I think everyone should read this book and I think everyone should try their best to be a stone catcher.