Crimes Against Humanity?
With the rise of the number of people imprisoned, there has been a rise in the number of articles, books, memoirs, and novels detailing experiences with our criminal justice system. Here are but a few to get started.

• Your Lyin' Eyes - What to do about eyewitnesses who get it wrong. By Steve Chapman - A good overview on the fallibility of eyewitness testimony.
  
• The Talented Mr. Lerner - The New York Times Book Review by David D. Kirkpatrick of the book You Got Nothing Coming by Jimmy Lerner. You'll have to pay for the article, but it's a great read. In particular, it debunks the 'heroic' Lerner by getting to the actual details of his crime.
  
• Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing - An inside look into the life of a prison guard. The journalist Ted Conover went undercover and served as a correctional officer for a year at New York's toughest prison. You can hear an interview with Conover on NPR's Fresh Air.
  
• The God File by Frank Turner Holton - A novel about a man sent to prison for life for a crime he didn't commit. From a customer review on this page:
  

  
  "The prison genre has often been used in novels, memoirs, and film as a stripped-down, bare-bones symbol of an uncaring, overpowering, and alien universe and humanity's reaction to it. Frank Turner Hollon's THE GOD FILE is a fresh and compelling addition to that tradition."
  

  
  

As I come across more links, I'll post them here.

Kilroy

- posted by Anonymous @ 9:39 AM