Rethinking Justice: Inside America's Movement for Prosecution Reform

In the criminal justice system, people are cast into polar positions on the good-bad axis: and . Prosecutors, who wield considerable power and influence in the enforcement of our laws, are almost universally cast as . Seldom is there accountability when they are, in fact, not always good. introduces a newly minted generation of prosecutors, intent on holding the entire system accountable and changing the way we handle crime in America. Through stories and insights from district attorneys, legal scholars, and survivors of a perilously flawed system, imagines the tough-on-crime D.A. role recast as a "progressive prosecutor." Is this political paradox even possible?