Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free

In this startling and incisive exploration, Judge Jed S. Rakoff, a leading authority on white-collar crime, exposes the paradoxes and injustices that define the American judiciary today. How can we be proud of a system of justice that often pressures the innocent to plead guilty? How can we claim that justice is equal when we imprison thousands of poor Black men for relatively modest crimes but rarely prosecute rich white executives who commit crimes having far greater impact? How can we applaud