Criminal Justice Reform

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    • A Christian Proposal
    • By: Matthew T. Martens, Derwin Gray - foreword
    • Narrated by: Tim Tremaine
    • Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Attorney and seminary graduate Matthew T. Martens examines the American criminal justice system and proposes a vision for it that is based on Christ’s command to love our neighbors as ourselves (Luke 10:27)....

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    • And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System
    • By: Jed S. Rakoff
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • How can we be proud of a system of justice that often pressures the innocent to plead guilty? Federal Judge Jed S. Rakoff, a leading authority on white-collar crime, explores this and other puzzles in a startling account of our broken legal system....

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    • The True Causes of Mass Incarceration - and How to Achieve Real Reform
    • By: John F. Pfaff
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country....

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    • The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
    • By: Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law, Michelle Alexander - foreword
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • In Prison by Any Other Name, activist journalists Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal the way the kinder, gentler narrative of reform can obscure agendas of social control and challenge us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when pursuing change....

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    • A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America
    • By: Bill Bratton, Peter Knobler
    • Narrated by: Bill Bratton
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • The epic, transformative career of Bill Bratton, legendary police commissioner and police reformer, in Boston, Los Angeles, and New York....

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    • A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice
    • By: Paul Butler
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Butler looks at places where ordinary citizens meet the justice system - as jurors, witnesses, and in encounters with the police - and explores what "doing the right thing" means in a corrupt system....

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    • By: Paul Brakke
    • Narrated by: Doug Cooper
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In Fixing the US Criminal Justice System, author Paul Brakke provides an in-depth look from a conservative perspective at the many flaws in the system and how to fix them....

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    • And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration
    • By: Victoria Law
    • Narrated by: Melissa Moran
    • Series: Myths Made in America
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals....

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    • The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
    • By: Marie Gottschalk
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Caught, Marie Gottschalk examines why the carceral state remains so tenacious in the United States....

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    • Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal
    • By: Carissa Byrne Hessick
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Nearly every aspect of our criminal justice system encourages defendants-whether innocent or guilty-to take a plea deal. Punishment Without Trial showcases how plea bargaining has undermined justice at every turn and across socioeconomic and racial divides....

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    • A True Story of the Fight for Justice
    • By: Bryan Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 542 ratings
    • In this very personal work, adapted from the original number one best seller, acclaimed lawyer and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson offers a glimpse into the lives of the wrongfully imprisoned and his efforts to fight for their freedom....

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    • Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
    • By: Tony Platt
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Beyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the US, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration, and offers a bold vision for a new future....

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    • The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt
    • By: Phoebe Zerwick
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In June 1985, a young Black man named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor at the local paper....

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    • Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom
    • By: Vincent Schiraldi
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • We've heard a lot in recent years about the nearly 2.1 million people incarcerated in American prisons and jails. But what about the approximately four million more who are on probation and parole—monitored by the state at great expense....

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    • Solutions from Our Experiences in the Justice System
    • By: Vivian Nixon - editor, Daryl Atkinson - editor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Timothy Andrés Pabon, David Sadzin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • When The New Press, the Center for American Progress, and the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement issued a call for innovative reform ideas, over 300 currently and formerly incarcerated individuals responded....

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    • A Story of Faith, Family, and Justice
    • By: Bobby Love, Cheryl Love
    • Narrated by: Harvey Reaves, Cheri VandenHeuvel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, which captured the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York....

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    • Quality Education, Equal Employment, and Criminal Justice Reform
    • By: Edward Dwayne Sanders
    • Narrated by: Larry Herron
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Today, the Black community faces an alarming education gap, a higher rate of unemployment/underemployment, and inequalities in the criminal justice system....

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