Judith Browne Dianis’ Book Recommendation

Justice In America

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News, Politics, Prison, Law, Criminal, Justice, Jail, History, Education, Incarceration, America

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🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Judith Browne Dianis is the Executive Director of the Advancement Project. Judith joined host Josie Duffy Rice to talk about her reading recommendations.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is the Justice in America book bonus.
0:05.0	I'm here with Judith Brown-Dianis.
0:08.0	She's an American Civil Rights Attorney and the Executive Director of the Advancement Project.
0:12.0	Can you tell us any books that you've read in the past or are currently reading
0:15.8	that have influenced your view on criminal justice or have changed the way you think about the system?
0:19.8	Yes, two bucks, I can't give one, but one is Angela Davis's, our prison's obsolete, and then
0:26.7	just mercy. And I think just mercy because a more recent one, and I don't know that it
0:31.2	informed me as much as it made it real because the stories were so rich and I think it brings to life
0:39.6	Michelle Alexander's work in a different way, like through storytelling in ways that you can
0:46.2	just see the people and feel the system playing out through their lives.
0:52.4	Thank you so much and thank you so much for joining us
0:54.9	on Justice in America.

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