57 pages 1 hour read

John Grisham

The Guardians

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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Further Reading: Beyond Literature (Nonfiction)

This book examines the inherent racism in America's criminal justice system, linking old Jim Crow-era laws to today's laws.

This book explores the privatization of the American criminal justice system, a $5 billion dollar industry, and the dubious ethics of prisons-for-profit.

This article covers the case of Joe Bryan, a man who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for his wife's murder. His story inspired John Grisham's story of Quincy Miller in The Guardians.

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Hosted by criminal justice reform advocate and Innocence Project founding board member Jason Flom, this podcast features conversations with people imprisoned for crimes they maintain they didn’t commit. Some have been exonerated while others remain in prison.

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These portraits and biographies examine the lives of wrongfully convicted persons freed by The Innocence Project, a real-world legal organization with the same mission as Guardian Ministries—freeing wrongfully convicted people from U.

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