| #694420 in Books | City Lights Publishers | 2009-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.10 x.90 x5.30l,.75 | File type: PDF | 280 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| I would love to start a nonprofit that employs former jailhouse lawyers ...|By Gloria Wolk|I would love to start a nonprofit that employs former jailhouse lawyers (who cannot get proper employment after release), and use their skills and knowledge to help young innocent and wrongly convicted people, to prevent them from losing so many of their years before they are exonerated.||
"...expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice system...His writings are dangerous." --VILLAGE VOICE "Brilliant in its specificity and imperative, [his] work is about why multitudes of people don't overcome. It rings so true because he has not ove
“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 A...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA | Mumia Abu-Jamal.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.