Recommended Titles and Treatises
To help provide access to the Texas State Law Library's legal resources, the reference librarians have selected the most noteworthy titles in our collection and arranged them here by subject. The titles listed for each subject feature a brief summary written by a reference librarian, and each subject's titles are divided into those that are specific to Texas law and those that aren't.
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Prisoner Rights
Actual innocence: when justice goes wrong and how to make it right
407 pages. No updates available.
Actual Innocence tells the real life stories of innocent men that were incarcerated in the United States. The authors look at the flaws in the criminal justice system that put the wrong people behind bars. They also discuss the positive impact DNA evidence has made to release these men from prison.