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This month Matthew T. Mangino reviews The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington.
This month John Wesley Hall reviews Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump by Michael Cohen.
This month Russell Stetler reviews Criminality in Context: The Psychological Foundations of Criminal Justice Reform by Craig Haney.
This month Thomas J. Farrell reviews No Place on the Corner: The Costs of Aggressive Policing by Jan Haldipur.
This month Chloe Reyes and Patrick Keenan-Devlin review Criminal Defense-Based Forensic Social Work by Ashley Ratliff and Maren Willins (Editors).
This month Elizabeth Kelley reviews Quest for Justice: Defending the Damned – 2nd ed. by Richard S. Jaffe.
This month Allan F. Brooke II reviews Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement by Albert Woodfox with Leslie George.
This month Linda Friedman Ramirez reviews Deported to Death: How Drug Violence Is Changing Migration on the US-Mexico Border by Jeremy Slack.
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.