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02883aam a2200433 i 4500 001 56ECE6B8A4C211EB9FC78A1843ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210424010014 008 201216t20212021nyu 001 0aeng 010 $a 2020056778 020 $a 0593132920 020 $a 9780593132920 035 $a (OCoLC)1227836440 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d FNN $d OQX $d OCLCO $d CGB $d OCLCO $d IH9 $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-pa 050 00 $a KF373.K69 $b A3 2021 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Krasner, Larry, $d 1961- $e author. 245 10 $a For the people : $b a story of justice and power / $c Larry Krasner. 246 30 $a Story of justice and power 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b One World, $c [2021] 300 $a viii, 320 pages ; $c 25 cm 500 $a Includes an index. 520 $a Larry Krasner spent thirty years learning about America's carceral system as a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer in Philadelphia, working to get some kind of justice for his clients in a broken system in the era of mass incarceration, before deciding that the way to truly transform the system was to get inside of it. So he launched an unlikely campaign to become the District Attorney of Philadelphia, a city known for its long line of notorious "tough on crime" DAs. When Krasner announced his candidacy, surrounded by the activists and community organizers he'd worked with for years, the president of the Philadelphia police union described it as "hilarious." Despite the odds, Krasner laid out a simple case for radical reform and won the November general election by a margin of nearly 50% -- he was able to enter the halls of power and begin the work of dismantling mass incarceration from the inside. This is not just a story about Krasner's remarkable life as a defense lawyer and his powerful, grassroots campaign, but the bigger story of how power and injustice conspire together to create a carceral state unprecedented in the world. Readers follow Krasner through the streets and courtrooms and election precincts of one American city to see how our system of injustice was built -- and how we might dismantle it -- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Krasner, Larry, $d 1961- 650 0 $a Criminal defense lawyers $z Philadelphia $z Philadelphia $v Biography. 650 0 $a Public prosecutors $z Philadelphia $z Philadelphia $v Biography. 650 0 $a Criminal justice, Administration of $z Philadelphia. $z Philadelphia. 651 0 $a Philadelphia (Pa.) $x Politics and government. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 4 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314021947.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210702013055.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20210520010137.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210424010131.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=56ECE6B8A4C211EB9FC78A1843ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search