The Harvard Law Review Forum just published the
article, Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and
the Failure of American Lawyers. It is written by Alec Karakatsanis (Equal
Justice Under Law), a new friend to pretrial justice, and one of those guys
with his feet firmly planted inside court houses in places like Ferguson,
Missouri, Clanton, Alabama, and North Charleston, South Carolina.
It touches briefly on the quote from the United States Supreme Court, "In our society, liberty is the norm, and detention prior to trial or without trial is the carefully limited exception," and thus the paper reminds us that a big part of pretrial justice is simply figuring out how to make this statement a reality.
I know Alec, and therefore I know that even though he
uses the term “failure,” he means it to inspire the kind of work that only the legal
profession can do. I’m a fourth generation lawyer, and I take no offense.
Here is the link: http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/04/policing-mass-imprisonment-and-the-failure-of-american-lawyers/
