The The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko

The The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko

A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system and its devastating effect on innocent lives

Radley Balko is an investigative journalist and reporter at the Washington Post. He currently writes and edits The Watch, a reported opinion blog that covers civil liberties and the criminal justice system. He is the author of the 2013 book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces, which has won widespread acclaim, including from theEconomist, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, andPublishers Weekly, and was named one of the best investigative journalism books of the year by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Since 2006, Balko has written dozens of pieces on Hayne, West, and Mississippi's forensics disaster. His January 2013 investigation, "Solving Kathy Mabry's Murder: Brutal 15-Year-Old Crime Highlights Decades-Long Mississippi Scandal," was one of the most widely read Huffington Post articles of 2013. In 2015, Balko was awarded the Innocence Project's Journalism Award, in part for his coverage in Mississippi.

Tucker Carrington is the director of the George C. Cochran Innocence Project at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He has worked as a criminal defense lawyer for his entire legal career, most of it as a public defender in Washington, D.C.

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ISBN 13	9781541774056
ISBN 10	1541774051
Title	The The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist
Author	Radley Balko
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	PublicAffairs,U.S.
Year published	2019-04-11
Number of pages	416
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