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For the people a story of justice and power

"Larry Krasner spent thirty years learning about America's carceral system as a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer in Philadelphia, working to get some kind of justice for his clients in a broken system in the era of mass incarceration, before deciding that the way to truly transform the syste...

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Main Author: Krasner, Larry, 1961- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : One World, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
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Krasner, Larry, > 1961-
Criminal defense lawyers > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography.
Public prosecutors > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Politics and government.
Autobiographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chasing power: campaign announcement
  • Early outsider
  • Death penalty: first interview at the DAO
  • Frank's long shadow
  • Decarcertion
  • Do less harm
  • Police integrity
  • Prosecutor integrity
  • Lisa taught me politics
  • Victims and survivors
  • Progressive prosecutor
  • Difference = Power: The campaign
  • Protest clampdown
  • And then we won
  • Changes
  • Ryden
  • Eleventh hour: second interview at the DAO
  • Taking power: swearing in a movement
  • Epilogue swearing in the future.

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