Founder and Executive Director of the Civil Rights Corps and former public defender, Alec Karakatsanis, published Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System, which highlights the desensitization of fellow lawyers complicit in perpetuating mass incarceration and the issues plaguing the criminal justice system. His collection of essays is a raw and real examination of our criminal justice system that serves as a call to action to us all and makes us reconsider what it means to truly fix it.