BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Demco Software//Event Management System//EN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20170209T180539Z DTSTAMP:20170209T180539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210129T193000Z DESCRIPTION:Tales &\; Talk\n is a book discussion group sponsored by the Johnson City Public \nLibrary. Membership is open to all adults who can commit to attending \nregular \ndiscussion meetings. The group meets 6 times a year on the 2nd or 3rd \nThursday of September\, October\, November\, March\, April and May. One of \nthe groups meets in the morning and the other in the evening. Both \ngroups will read the same book. The books to be discussed will be \navailable to group members to borrow or to purchase. For more \ninformation call (423)434-4454\, send an e-mail to phoneroom or inquire at the Information Desk on the 2nd floor of the library.Summary of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson:*Starred Review* As a young Harvard law student testing himself in an \ninternship in Georgia\, Stevenson visited death-row inmates and saw \nfirsthand the injustices suffered by the poor and disadvantaged\, how too\n many had been railroaded into convictions with inadequate legal \nrepresentation. The visit made such an impression on Stevenson that he \nstarted the Equal Justice Institute in Montgomery\, Alabama. One of his \nfirst clients was Walter McMillian\, a young black man accused of \nmurdering a white woman and imprisoned on death row even before he was \ntried. Stevenson alternates chapters on the shocking miscarriage of \njustice in McMillian's case\, including police and prosecutorial \nmisconduct\, with other startling cases. The war on drugs and \ntough-on-crime political postures have resulted in hundreds of juveniles\n sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for nonhomicidal \noffenses. Among the cases Stevenson cites: a 14-year-old condemned to \ndeath for killing his mother's abusive boyfriend and a mentally ill \nadolescent girl condemned to life in prison for second-degree murder for\n the death of young boys killed in a fire she started accidentally. \nThrough these cases and others\, Stevenson details changes in victims' \nrights\, incarceration of juveniles\, death penalty reforms\, inflexible \nsentencing laws\, and the continued practices of injustice that see too \nmany juveniles\, minorities\, and mentally ill people imprisoned in a \nfrenzy of mass incarceration in the U.S. A passionate account of the \nways our nation thwarts justice and inhumanely punishes the poor and \ndisadvantaged.--Bush\, Vanessa Copyright 2014 Booklist\nImage URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.evanced.info/Customer/jcpl/JUST_MERCY_1E393EE6.JPG X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Tales &\; Talk\n is a book discussion group sponsored by the Johnson City Public \nLibrary. Membership is open to all adults who can commit to attending \nregular \ndiscussion meetings. The group meets 6 times a year on the 2nd or 3rd \nThursday of September\, October\, November\, March\, April and May. One of \nthe groups meets in the morning and the other in the evening. Both \ngroups will read the same book. The books to be discussed will be \navailable to group members to borrow or to purchase. For more \ninformation call (423)434-4454\, send an e-mail to phoneroom or inquire at the Information Desk on the 2nd floor of the library.
Summary of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson: