Jarrett Adams, author of REDEEMING JUSTICE - an in-person Boswell event

Boswell is pleased to host an event with Jarrett Adams, author of Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System. Cohosted by Wisconsin State Public Defenders. Seventeen years old and facing nearly thirty years behind bars, Jarrett Adams became obsessed with our legal system in all its damaged glory. After studying how his constitutional rights to effective counsel had been violated, he solicited the help of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, won his release after nearly ten years in prison, earned his law degree, and became the first exoneree ever hired by the Innocence Project as a lawyer. In this illuminating story of hope and full-circle redemption, Adams draws on his life and the cases of his clients to show the racist tactics used to convict young men of color, the unique challenges facing exonerees once released, and how the lack of equal…