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This month Cara Wieneke reviews The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences by Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis.
This month Lisa B. Kauffman reviews Lawyer X: A True Story by Jake Banks.
Mark P. Rankin reviews Cultural Issues in Criminal Defense, edited by Linda Friedman Ramirez; Mark H. Allenbaugh reviews Federal Prison Guidebook, edited by Alan Ellis and J. Michael Henderson; Matthew G. Kaiser reviews Michael D. Cicchini and Amy B. Kushner's But They Didn’t Read Me My Rights: Myths, Oddities, and Lies About Our Legal System; Angela J. Moore reviews Margaret Regan's The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories From the Arizona — Mexico Borderlands; and Michelle Inderbitzin reviews David Chura's I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales Of Kids in Adult Lockup.
Robert Batey and Judith A.M. Scully review Irene Sullivan's Raised by the Courts: One Judge’s Insight Into Juvenile Justice and Rafael E. Silva reviews Lyn Haber and Ralph Norman Haber's Challenges to Fingerprints.
This month Lissa Griffin reviews The Mueller Investigation and Beyond by Ellen S. Podgor et al.
This month Tony Bornstein reviews The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose by Chris Wilson with Bret Witter.
This month Susan Elizabeth Reese reviews Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers: Lives in the Law by Jill Norgren.
This month Dionne R. Gonder-Stanley reviews No Justice: One White Police Officer, One Black Family, and How One Bullet Ripped Us Apart by Robbie Tolan and Lawrence Ross.
This month Wendy Lee reviews Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy by Mike German.
This month Robert Sanger reviews Capital Defense: Inside the Lives of America’s Death Penalty Lawyers by Jon B. Gould and Maya Pagni Barak.
This month Ian Nawalinski reviews Habeas Data by Cyrus Farivar.
This month Gail Gianasi Natale reviews The Pretender: My Life Undercover for the FBI by Marc Ruskin.
This month Tony Bornstein reviews A Stone of Hope by Jim St. Germain with Jon Sternfeld.
This month Robert M. Sanger reviews The War on Kids by Cara Drinan.
This month Matthew T. Mangino reviews Butterfly in the Rain by James L. Neibaur.
