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Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Justice System

By Alec Karakatsanis
Narrated by: George Newbern
Unabridged — 4 hours, 26 minutes
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By Alec Karakatsanis
Narrated by: George Newbern
Unabridged — 4 hours, 26 minutes
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Alec Karakatsanis is interested in what we choose to punish. For example, it is a crime in most of America for poor people to wager in the streets over dice; dice-wagerers can be seized, searched, have their assets forfeited, and be locked in cages. It's perfectly fine, by contrast, for people to wager over international currencies, mortgages, or the global supply of wheat.



He is also troubled by how the legal system works when it is trying to punish people. The bail system, for example, is ...