Jailhouse Lawyers

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Jailhouse Lawyers

Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA

Civics and citizenship Human rights, civil rights Criminal law: procedure and offences

Author: Mumia Abu-Jamal

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Language: English

Published by: City Lights Publishers

Published on: 18th September 2020

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 7 Mb

ISBN: 9780872868175


“Expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice system . . . His writings are dangerous.”—The Village Voice

In Jailhouse Lawyers, award-winning journalist and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal presents the stories and reflections of fellow prisoners-turned-advocates who have learned to use the court system to represent other prisoners—many uneducated or illiterate—and, in some cases, to win their freedom. In Abu-Jamal’s words, “This is the story of law learned, not in the ivory towers of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities [but] in the bowels of the slave-ship, in the dank dungeons of America.”

Includes an introduction by Angela Y. Davis.

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s books include Live From Death Row and Death Blossoms.

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