I Write About the Law. But Could I Really Help Free a Prisoner?

T Magazine, June 30, 2021: I Write About the Law. But Could I Really Help Free a Prisoner?

“Like many journalists who write about criminal justice, I get a lot of mail from people in prison. The letters usually go on for pages, carefully handwritten on lined note paper, sometimes with sentences in smaller print crawling up the margins. The pages are dense with facts, about a conviction or an appeal. They often brim with desperation. It’s impossible for me to read all of them, and though I don’t feel good about it, many go unanswered.”

Additional reading:

Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration on bookshop.org

The New Yorker, March 29, 2021: How Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory

The New York Times Magazine, January 15, 2020: Shadow of a Doubt