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LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST •  NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • A  “powerful and devastating” ( The Washington Post )  call to free those buried alive by America’s legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity—from a gifted young lawyer and important new voice in the movement t o transform the system. “An essential book for our time . . . Brittany K. Barnett is a star.”—Van Jones, CEO of REFORM Alliance, CNN Host, and  New York Times bestselling author Brittany K. Barnett was only a law student when she came across the case that would change her life forever—that of Sharanda Jones, single mother, business owner, and, like Brittany, Black daughter of the rural South. A victim of America’s devastating war on drugs, Sharanda had been torn away from her young daughter and was serving a life sentence without parole—for a first-time drug offense. In Sharanda, Brittany saw haunting echoes of her own life, as the daughter of a formerly incarcerated mother. As she studied this case, a system came into focus in which widespread racial injustice forms the core of America’s addiction to incarceration. Moved by Sharanda’s plight, Brittany set to work to ga

Author

Brittany K. Barnett

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group, The

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781984825797

Subjects

Memoir, Science, Law

Rating

4.7 / 5 (1,694 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14