I couldn’t put this down. Detailed, explanatory, compelling, sympathetic, and cynical all at once. Bogira put together perspectives from people interacting with and working in the criminal justice system in many different roles and wove them all into a series of fascinating and maddening stories. (Maddening because it’s so frustrating to see how deep the problems go.)
The narrator uses his acting chops to make the different voices come alive, much more than in most nonfiction books.
I got it because I heard it was an inspiration for the series All Rise. I saw bits of some of his stories in the series, but the perspective and overall emotional tenor of the series are very different.