An illuminating study of the American criminal justice system follows a year in the events of a felony courthouse and the lives of men and women on both sides of the law who play a part, chronicling a variety of cases from the point-of-view of the prisoners' lockup, the jury room, the spectators' gallery, and the judge's chambers. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

The many faces of the modern justice system are exposed in a revealing book about Chicago's Operation Greylord, begun in 1980 and the most comprehensive corruption investigation ever undertaken by the Justice Department