This is every bit as good as "The New Jim Crow", but quite different. While TNJC focuses on the processes that put so many people in prison, this book focuses on individual people in prison and working to achieve justice for them. Stevenson leads the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama. They started out working for people on death row, but expanded to unjust sentences for children, and treatment of prisoners.

It's beautifully written, and draws you in to the stories of Mr. Stevenson and the people he meets behind bars.