Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

31 reviews

mishmash911's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, Racial slurs, Murder, Forced institutionalization, and Death

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

chandle5's review against another edition

informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Racism, and Hate crime

Minor: Racial slurs

maarsargo's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Miscarriage, Violence, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Murder, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Death, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

belladeriso's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Slavery, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Drug abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Infidelity, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, and Violence

alayamorning's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Excrement, Child death, Death, Murder, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Racial slurs, Rape, Torture, Violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Police brutality, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Slavery and Pregnancy

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Incest, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Vomit, Excrement, Homophobia, Dementia, and Infidelity

Minor: Islamophobia, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

imprisonment, wrongful imprisonment, capital punishment

morganperks's review

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Hate crime, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

raeannht's review

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Just Mercy is a compelling account of injustices in the criminal justice system, including racial prejudice and harsh sentencing for children. It includes literal jaw dropping stories and facts that read like a thriller but are not able to be enjoyed due to being the horrifying truth. It contains surprises and events that are criminally unsurprising.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and Racism

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, and Violence

beauty_andbooks's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

The main plot of this book is of the utmost importance. I want to first make that clear! The issues this book raises is relevant to this day and an ongoing terrible problem in the prison system. I had trouble giving this book a star rating because while I didn’t love it, I know that this is a must read for EVERYONE. The legal talk within the book is what caused me to often times be confused by it since I’m not knowledgable in legal lingo. At all! But as I read, I could still appreciate the conveying message. If you want more inclusiveness in your reading, then pick up this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Violence

thechiaraface's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

This is a memoir by the lawyer who founded Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) a nonprofit law office in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to defending the poor, the incarcerated, and the wrongly condemned. This book tells Stevenson's story, the story of EJI, and the story of Walter McMillian, a man wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death and EJIs fight to free him. This book also includes many shorter stories of so many others who were wrongly convicted or unfairly condemned, and he discusses topics related to the justice system (e.g. life convictions for children, the intellectually disabled, and mentally ill). 

 This was an excellent book, and I am glad to have read it. However, this was not an easy read, there were sections in the middle where I dreaded picking this book up because of the injustice and cruelty of all that was being described. The last two chapters & epilogue made me bawl. And yet, it ends with hope, hope for a better future. This book was extremely eye-opening. Here are just a few (of the many)  notes I wrote to myself while reading this book (as just a little.inaight into my reading experience): 

-It's emotional and he (the author) humanizes everyone and it's just so hard seeing how the prison and justice system dehumanizes people 
 -will make you hate how we devalue children and their trauma when they are poor or POC 
-they are still executing a intellectually disabled man, even though it has been declared unconstitutional - ARE YOU F*ING KIDDING ME.  
-If you want a book that wil  make you angry and believe that the US justice system is a hot fucking mess read this.  

This book will make you sad, angry, and stressed - and you should still read it! This book is so, so important and it is also very well written. So I urge you to pick this book up, but also mind your content warnings as this has many.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Mental illness, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence