![]() ![]() struggle to make sense of an existence now permanently enclosed within a prison’s walls is one of the more moving accounts in Bazelon’s book. Charged is meant to, and does, provoke pity and terror in us at the sheer inhumanity of all imprisonment. The matter of.innocence.may be less certain than Bazelon supposes. These companies are selling our kids’ likes and habits to advertisers, and enticing all of us to give up more and more of our privacy. Yet, though Bazelon’s larger points about the madness of prosecutorial power are all impeccably well taken, the two central cases she uses to illustrate these points are somewhat surprising choices. 12 quotes from Emily Bazelon: We could, however, demand much more from the social media sites that are so eager to sign up our kids and encourage them to share, share, share. She has a good ear for talk, and a fine eye for detail. ![]() Her book achieves what in-depth first-person reporting should: it humanizes the statistics, makes us aware that every courtroom involves the bureaucratic regimentation of an individual’s life. She tells these stories in microscopic detail, analyzing the background of each bizarre stop along the infernal circle-why bail is so hard to get and why it exists at all why public defenders are often so inadequate-in a way that allows the specific case stories to become general truths. Charged, though far-reaching in purpose, is above all a study of two cases in which prosecutorial misconduct or overreach put two people through hell. ![]()
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