The Jailhouse Lawyer
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In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court.
Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are...
Published By Little, Brown and Company
Format Paperback
Category
Number Of Pages 592
Publication Date 01/17/2023
ISBN 9781538752579
Dimensions 5.3 inches x 8 inches
“I couldn’t put down The Jailhouse Lawyer, a page-turning legal thriller that exposes a headline-making crisis in the American courts: the new debtors’ prisons, where an inability to pay court costs sentences poor people to jail, with devastating consequences.” —Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Tony Messenger, author of Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice