Change from Within

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781620977361 Author(s): Miriam Aroni Krinsky Format: Hardcover Language: English Year: 2022 Publisher: The New Press Pages: 288

Description: A new breed of reform-minded prosecutors tells their stories about the challenges and successes of making change from inside the systemGrowing up in ChicagoA?s Cabrini-Green housing projects, Kim Foxx never anticipated that she would become the chief prosecutor in the countryA?s second-biggest county. When Chesa Boudin was a baby, his parents were arrested and incarcerated. Visiting them in prison for decades helped shape his convictions about what justice doesA?and doesnA?tA?look like in the United States. Now, along with eleven other reform-minded prosecutors voters put in office throughout the country, they reflect on the task they set for themselves: making change from within.Using the power of their office, which has traditionally fueled mass incarceration and harsh punishments, this new breed of elected prosecutors has joined the movement to shake up the justice system. In Change from Within, these visionaries describe their journeys to office, what they are doing to change A?business as usual,A? the pushback theyA?ve experienced, and their thoughts on reforms that are possible working from the inside.Published in partnership with Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP), drawing from interviews conducted by FJP executive director Miriam Krinsky, a former federal prosecutor, this unprecedented book includes intensely personal first-person profiles of thirteen transformative DAs. Each story is accompanied by an image inspired by the prosecutor and created by a formerly incarcerated artist.

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