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The Science of Second Chances: A Revolution in Criminal Justice
$29.99 Add to cartFreakonomics for criminal justice, The Science of Second Chances presents a groundbreaking approach to criminal justice reform, revealing how small-scale interventions can reduce people’s chances of r
- Author: Doleac, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1250886287
- Language: English
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The Deserving: What the Lives of the Condemned Reveal about American Justice
$29.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking new take on the American justice system from one of its unknown “mercy workers,” offering a powerful new vision of responsibility, punishment, and repair.
“We need the work that is mi- Author: Vartkessian, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1639731393
- Language: English
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Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
$19.95 Add to cart“Fierce and absorbing . . . Fabricant chronicles the battles he and his colleagues have fought to unravel a century of fraudulent experts and the bad court decisions that allowed them to thrive.” —Wa
- Author: Fabricant, M. Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1636141358
- Language: English
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Too Close to the Flame: With the Condemned Inside the Southern Killing Machine
$28.00 Add to cartJoe Ingle’s Too Close to the Flame is a heartbreakingly beautiful account of over four decades serving as a spiritual counselor, guide, and friend to the men and women on Death Row.
“I had been worki- Author: Ingle, Joseph B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1637632916
- Language: English
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Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
$68.68 Add to cartInnocence Project attorney M. Chris Fabricant presents an insider’s journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science plays in maintaining the status quo.
Praise fr
- Author: Fabricant, M. Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1636140300
- Language: English
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Crossing the River Styx: The Memoir of a Death Row Chaplain
$29.95 Add to cartThe Reverend Russ Ford, who served as the head chaplain on Virginia’s death row for eighteen years, raged against the inequities of the death penalty–now outlawed in Virginia–while ministering to th
- Author: Ford, Russ
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0813949114
- Language: English
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Ghosts Over the Boiler: Voices from Alabama’s Death Row
$24.95 Add to cartFrom a donated typewriter that frequently breaks down, people on Alabama’s death row have literally cut and pasted together a newsletter, On Wings of Hope, for the last three decades to educate the pu… [more below]
- Author: Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826505295
- Language: English
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On Human Slaughter: Evil, Justice, Mercy
$12.95 Add to cart
Incisive, compassionate, and revelatory reporting from America’s death row, named a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for feature writing. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic w- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Bruenig, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1638931429
- Language: English
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Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy
$28.00 Read more“Alex Mar’s bold yet sensitive account of one of America’s youngest death row inmates–and the people whose lives she forever changed–is intimately reported, deeply moving, and unforgettable.” –Robe
- Author: Mar, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0525522158
- Language: English
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Finding Joy on Death Row: Unexpected Lessons from Lives We Discarded
$17.95 Add to cartBased on the sermon series that garnered top honors from Yale Divinity School, Finding Joy on Death Row is the powerful story of a broken preacher’s transformative experience learning about joy from D
- Author: Williams, Dewey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1947297554
- Language: English
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This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life
$18.99 Read moreA “profound, sometimes hilarious, often heartbreaking” (The New York Times) view of prison life, as told by currently and formerly incarcerated people, from the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody… [more below]
- Author: Poor, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0593238885
- Language: English
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The Death Row Cookbook: The Famous Last Meals (with Recipes) of Death Row Inmates
$19.99 Add to cartThe last meals of death row convicts fascinate us because they offer an insight into a disturbed mind shortly before its owner’s death. The last meal is a way for the system to offer a last-minute nod
- Series: Crime Shorts #4
- Author: Fleury, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: February 27, 2019
- ISBN10: 1629177512
- Language: English
