![]() struggle to make sense of an existence now permanently enclosed within a prison’s walls is one of the more moving accounts in Bazelon’s book. ![]() Charged is meant to, and does, provoke pity and terror in us at the sheer inhumanity of all imprisonment. by Emily Bazelon RELEASE DATE: April 9, 2019. The matter of.innocence.may be less certain than Bazelon supposes. THE NEW MOVEMENT TO TRANSFORM AMERICAN PROSECUTION AND END MASS INCARCERATION. ![]() Yet, though Bazelon’s larger points about the madness of prosecutorial power are all impeccably well taken, the two central cases she uses to illustrate these points are somewhat surprising choices. She has a good ear for talk, and a fine eye for detail. Prosecutors Contribute to Mass Incarceration Charged, by Emily Bazelon. Her book achieves what in-depth first-person reporting should: it humanizes the statistics, makes us aware that every courtroom involves the bureaucratic regimentation of an individual’s life. The best criminal justice reporting tagged with Emily Bazelon, curated by. She tells these stories in microscopic detail, analyzing the background of each bizarre stop along the infernal circle-why bail is so hard to get and why it exists at all why public defenders are often so inadequate-in a way that allows the specific case stories to become general truths. Charged, though far-reaching in purpose, is above all a study of two cases in which prosecutorial misconduct or overreach put two people through hell. ![]()
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