Cast Out: A Call for a Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration

We are all more than the worst thing we’ve ever done

“Margulies tells the stories of people who have done monstrous things but are not monsters, are not forever defined by their worst acts. He writes beautifully of pain and loss, but also of redemption and transformation….A wonderfully hopeful book about what it means to be human.”—Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking

In Cast Out, civil rights lawyer Joseph Margulies insists that those who commit even the most heinous crimes are ...