Just Mercy a Story of Justice and Redemption Review
Merely Mercy — A Book Review and Reading List
**In lite of contempo events and protests sweeping the country that have shed light on inequities in the United States justice organization, we will be regularly posting on the problems in the coming weeks.**
The power of just mercy is that it belongs to the undeserving. It's when mercy is least expected that it's almost potent — potent enough to pause the cycle of victimization and victimhood, retribution and suffering. It has the ability to heal the psychic impairment and injuries that lead to assailment and violence, abuse of power, mass incarceration. — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy (pg. 293)
Writer and attorney Bryan Stevenson is well aware of the cost of a harsh and punitive arrangement of justice, having spent decades challenging inequality in the American justice organisation. His book Only Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption tells how Stevenson, as a young Harvard police force graduate, got involved in defending people facing economic and social inequity within the justice organization. He went on to found the Equal Justice Initiative out of Montgomery, Alabama. In the book we get to share in Stevenson's caption of the projection to civil rights icon, Rosa Parks, telling her the project was about stopping the death punishment, changing prison conditions, challenging excessive penalization, and stopping racial bias. Stevenson has helped release more than 100 people from death row.
Today we have the highest charge per unit of incarceration in the earth. The prison house population has increased from 300,000 people in the early 1970s to 2.iii million people today. At that place are nearly six meg people on probation or on parole. One in every fifteen people born in the United States in 2001 is expected to go to jail or prison; 1 in every three black male babies built-in in this century is expected to be incarcerated. (pg. xiv)
Just Mercy tells how client Walter McMillian spent 6 years on expiry row for a murder conviction earlier an appeal, led by Stevenson, won his release for wrongful conviction. McMillian was convicted even though dozens of witnesses said he was at a church building fundraiser during the murder. Stevenson's investigation uncovered audio tapes of a coerced witness and McMillian's fifth appeal was successful.
Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each of us is more the worst thing we've ever done. My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is non wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice. (pg. 18)
Just Mercy was also released in December 2019 as a feature picture show starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, and Brie Larson. Co-ordinate to the Smithsonian Magazine, the film is streaming at no charge throughout the calendar month of June from a variety of services including Amazon, YouTube and Google Play. Only Mercy won the 2020 Silver Gavel Laurels for Drama & Literature from the American Bar Association.
You tin can learn more by listening to Stevenson'south March 2012 TED Talk: We demand to talk about an injustice and watching the 2019 HBO biopic Truthful Justice: Bryan Stevenson'south Fight for Equality which is currently available for streaming on the Equal Justice Initiative website.
Just Mercy will be available for check-out when the Washington Country Law Library opens for curbside service past engagement start June 18th. Many local public libraries too have the book available in impress and as an eastward-book. Search the Washington State Library's directory of libraries database for your local public library.
For more reading on civil rights and criminal justice topics, the books below are available in print from the Washington State Law Library.
Across These Walls : Rethinking Crime and Penalisation in the Usa [2019]
Charged : The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration [2019]
Ferguson'south Mistake Lines : The Race Quake That Rocked a Nation [2016]
Killing with Prejudice : Institutionalized Racism in American Majuscule Punishment [2019]
Locking Up Our Own : Offense and Punishment in Black America [2017]
Policing the Black Man : Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment [2017]
Split : The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation [2019]
The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Historic period of Colorblindness [2010]
The Supreme Court and Corrections : The Landmark Cases That Have Shaped America'south Prisons and Jails [2019]
Unusual Punishment : Inside the Walla Walla Prison, 1970–1985 [2016] (WB)
Source: https://medium.com/walawlibrary/just-mercy-a-book-review-and-reading-list-d6ca3f61a747
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