Podcast
We invite you to listen to the podcast, Deep End of the Pool, on This American Life. This is a moving story of a reluctant public defender and how he saved an innocent man and what it suggests about how the system does not work for people cannot afford counsel (including African Americans who experience higher poverty rates. (Please note this podcast does include language that some may find offensive.)
Additional Resources
Read this resource regarding mandatory sentences.
Here is a suggested article from the Wall Street Journal, What the Data Say about Police.
The following article addresses how our criminal justice system moved away from our founders’ vision, creating incentives that induce innocent people to plead guilty to crimes they didn’t commit - New York Times Review of Books - Why Innocent People Plead Guilty.