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At 17 years old, Jarrett Adams, a Black boy from Chicago, was convicted of raping a woman in Wisconsin. Adams spent 10 years of his life in prison for a rape he maintained he did not commit. He spent those years studying the legal system to overturn his own case eventually, becoming a lawyer himself.
adams is our guest now and has a book out redeeming justice from defendant to defender my fight for equity on both sides of a broken system. it s quite a life you ve led up to this point. i got to talk to you along the way. it s good to have you back, jared. thank you so much for having me, ari. there is so injustice, adversity and sadness and the hope, the perseverance that you ve had with your breakthroughs in the law. so let s start with your story and what you re conveying now at this point that you ve reached writing this book. i wanted to write the book because i wanted to take people on a journey how easy it is to lose people in the system that we know is flawed. a lot of times we get lost in these political conversations and we don t do what we know that needs to be done and that s reforming the system. so the book redeeming justice
better point in society, we have to, ari, do better in our system. we can t be the greatest country in the world. amen. to bring this incarceration at the same time. i love it. i really believe that you walk the walk, obviously and so i m happy to have you back on the beat as we kept in touch over the years. and i will end with a brief diddy quote, already, jared. quickly. please. i ain t got to talk it because i live it. you have lived it in ways we wouldn t wish on anyone and yet, you ve come out stronger for it so you are an inspiration to a lot of people. the fact you re willing to talk it and that people can learn more about it in the book i think my view is a good thing. so my thanks to jared adams and let me tell you the book is redeeming justice but jared adams. check it out. redeeming justice is that rare work for someone that s