In a 500-word essay please respond to the following prompt. Please be sure to engage with the reading.
Police brutality, the high costs of “adversarial legalism,” the clear benefits towards the “haves” at the expense of the “have nots”–it makes one wonder whether the American legal system is functioning as it should be or as we need it to. What does the perspective of the book Jailhouse Lawyers provide to what we have learned so far about the American legal system–and about adversarial legalism in particular? What does Mumia’s perspective say about the possibility for justice and the desirability of the Rule of Law? Does his book and his perspective provide a different view from other readings in class? If so, how so? If not–how does his book confirm what we already knew?