Yes, yes, there is so much to reform about the criminal justice system. Prisons are criminogenic, a training ground for revolving-door recidivism. Implicit bias makes a mockery of the notion of objective judges and juries. The system offers all the justice money can buy. All of this needs to be reformed, and the people in the trenches trying to do it—the Innocence Project, candidates for district attorney intent on change from within, lawyers helping underdogs pro bono—are amazing. I’ve now had the chance to work on around a dozen murder cases with public defenders, and they’re
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