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The Guardians
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Further Reading & Resources
Further Reading: Beyond Literature (Nonfiction)
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.
Video & Podcast Resources
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.
Other Relevant Media Resources
8 phenomenal portraits and stories of survivors of wrongful conviction by The Innocence Project (2017)
These portraits and biographies examine the lives of wrongfully convicted persons freed by The Innocence Project, a real-world legal organization with the same mission as Guardian Ministries—freeing wrongfully convicted people from U.
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