Sitting at Mafioza's with a beer in hand, just a little south of Downtown Nashville, an establishment whose libertarian owner allows Middle Tennessee's libertarians to meet once monthly for "Liberty on the Rocks," I found myself both captivated and repulsed by the stories that Reason Magazine's Radley Balko was telling me across the table.This was early last summer, shortly before I left Nashville to move to Washington DC, which Radley had just left. He had just moved to Nashville to work on a book he was writing about the horrific corruption in Mississippi's justice system. After hearing some grisly tales, I didn't have to ask why he moved to Tennessee instead of Mississippi to write the book: he needed to be closer to the state, but didn't quite feel comfortable living in it while writing this telling exposé. That scary.
In this July's issue of Reason Magazine, Radley Balko shares some of these stories from Mississippi and elsewhere, and I guarantee you that as you read them, your stomach will turn at the cruel injustice and perverse incentives that plague our courts. Just why on earth aren't prosecutors more liable for their actions when they commit obvious misdeeds?
You'll ask it again and again as you read:
A rogue’s gallery of misbehaving
prosecutors, plus three worth praising
Wes Messamore,
Editor in Chief, THL
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