Jailhouse Lawyers e-bog

';Expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice system . . . His writings are dangerous.'The Village VoiceIn Jailhouse Lawyers, award-winning journalist and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal presents the stories and reflections of fellow prisoners-turned-advocates who have learned to use the court system to represent other prisonersmany uneducated or illiterateand, in some cases, to win their freedom. In Abu-Jamal's words, ';This is the story of law learned, not in the ivory towers of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities [but] in the bowels of the slave-ship, in the dank dungeons of America.'Includes an introduction by Angela Y. Davis.Mumia Abu-Jamal's books include Live From Death Row and Death Blossoms.