“A moving and beautifully crafted memoir.”
—Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent
The Jarrett Adams Story Begins.
Jarrett Adams was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. After ten years and thousands of hours learning the law inside prison, and with the help of The Wisconsin Innocence Project, Jarrett walked out a free man to become a pioneering lawyer in the fight for overcoming injustice within the legal system.
From Defendant to Defender, My Fight For Equity On Both Sides Of A Broken System
Redeeming Justice is the poignant story of how an innocent young adult of color experienced the injustice of a legal system that purports to provide “justice for all.”
Walk step by step with Jarrett through 10 years of his life in prison and learn why he ended up there, how he survived inside with the love and support of his mother, aunts, and family, and what it finally took for him to earn his freedom.
But his story doesn’t end there. The hard-fought battle for freedom and the lessons he learned about our legal system at its worst drove him to law school. He vowed never to let this happen to anyone else. After earning his law degree, he worked with the New York Innocence Project as the first exoneree lawyer ever hired by the non-profit. Ironically, in his first case with the organization, he argued before the same court that convicted him ten years earlier – and he won.
This harrowing journey through the inner workings of the legal and prison systems and the triumph that follows created the passionate and committed lawyer that Jarrett Adams is today.
“One cannot truly understand justice until one has an experience of injustice,” says Jarrett. From the inside out, Jarrett Adams knows only too well what justice is and what it isn’t in America’s legal system.
What People Are Saying
“A daring act of justified defiance.”
— Shaka Senghor
“Nothing less than heroic.”
— John Grisham
Redeeming Justice: The Book
A decade after gaining his freedom, Jarrett Adams decided to tell his whole story and began writing a book. Released in September 2021, Redeeming Justice:
From Defendant to Defender, My Fight For Equity On Both Sides Of A Broken System goes deep inside Jarrett’s mind and his experience of justice in America. It’s a book that will make everyone think about how America’s systems govern our citizens and how injustice all too often masquerades as justice.
Published by Penguin Random House, read more about Redeeming Justice.