On the nightstand: Tuesday, 10/14/14

Today’s good reads in criminal-justice journalism, with an emphasis on longform narrative stories and original reporting about crime victims and reforms in sentencing and prisons: Daniel Alarcón’s gripping narrative, “The Contestant,” takes us inside Peru’s seamy reality-TV industry, where a family becomes a tool for an exploitative show. After sparking a retaliatory murder, the show and its […]