A Knock At Midnight
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This story breaks your heart. The way the justice system could incarcerate human beings with little to no evidence. Relying on testimony from others that had a word of mouth with no proof to back up, all just to see freedom themselves, they had to make the deal and turn on former friends.
The "war on drugs" ruined innocent lives. Tore families apart. People suffering in cells trying to make the best out of impossible deal.
This book makes you want to get a law degree so you can help fight the injustice.
There are thousands still locked up with 20+ year sentences that the state had no real evidence but of a word of a felon trying to get their own sentence reduced.
This was also an inspirational read as well. The characters' hope for freedom that Brittany could possibly prevail for them!
Must read!
Description
An inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity and an urgent call to free those buried alive by America's unjust legal system--from a gifted young lawyer whose journey marks the emergence of a powerful new voice in the movement to transform the system.
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 ruthless and devastating war on drugs, Sharanda had been torn from the arms of her young daughter and was serving a life sentence without parole--all for a first-time drug offense. In Sharanda, Brittany saw haunting echoes of own life, both as the daughter of a formerly incarcerated mother and the one-time girlfriend of an abusive drug dealer. As she studied Sharanda's case, a system slowly came into focus: one where widespread racial injustice forms the core of our country's addiction to incarceration. Moved by Sharanda's plight, Brittany began to work towards her freedom.
This had never been the plan. Bright and ambitious, Brittany was already a suc