The Guardians

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (2010)

This book examines the inherent racism in America's criminal justice system, linking old Jim Crow-era laws to today's laws.

Inside Private Prisons an American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Lauren-Brooke Eisen (2019)

This book explores the privatization of the American criminal justice system, a $5 billion dollar industry, and the dubious ethics of prisons-for-profit.

“33 Years After Dubious Evidence Helped Convict Him, Joe Bryan Has Been Released on Parole” (2020)

This article covers the case of Joe Bryan, a man who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for his wife's murder. His story inspired John Grisham's story of Quincy Miller in The Guardians.

Wrongful Conviction podcast

Hosted by criminal justice reform advocate and Innocence Project founding board member Jason Flom, this podcast features conversations with people imprisoned for crimes they maintain they didn’t commit. Some have been exonerated while others remain in prison.