After Framed
Usual Cruelty by Alec Karakatsanis
If Framed made you rage at wrongful convictions, Usual Cruelty shows you the routine horrors hiding in every bail hearing and plea deal. A civil rights lawyer's essays strip away the veneer of justice with the same raw honesty and investigative rigor—except here you're exposed to the mundane brutality that doesn't make headlines but destroys lives daily. This is what institutional rot looks like from the inside.