Perrin puts the criminal justice system on trial

Our criminal justice system is facing an existential crisis. The following is an excerpt from Benjamin Perrin's book, Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial, one of five finalists for this year's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

Benjamin Perrin on why his book is important: 'Indictment shares the first-hand stories of people whose lives have been devastated by the criminal justice system along with the latest research. It proposes a new transformative justice vision to help transform trauma rather than continue to transmit it.'Book cover and author photograph courtesy of Aevo UTP

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BY BENJAMIN PERRIN

May 6, 2024

“Stop holding conferences. Stop with the symposiums. Give it up. You are wasting air. You haven’t implemented the modest tinkering that you endlessly discuss. Your ideas are too little and too late,” wrote Harold Johnson, a Harvard-trained lawyer and member of the Mont...

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