Book Suggestion: A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom Brittany K. Barnett was only a law student when she came across the case that would change her life forever—that of Sharanda Jones, single mother, business owner, and, like Brittany, Black daughter of the rural South. A victim of America’s devastating war on drugs, Sharanda had been torn away from her young daughter and was serving a life sentence without parole—for a first-time drug offense. Brittany’s riveting memoir is at once a coming-of-age story and a powerful evocation of what it takes to bring hope and justice to a system built to resist them both. As she studied this case, a system came into focus in which widespread racial injustice forms the core of America’s addiction to incarceration. By day she moved billion-dollar deals, and by night she worked pro bono to free clients in near hopeless legal battles. But Sharanda’s case opened the door to a harrowing journey through the criminal justice system.

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