Chain Gang

Click on the orange link below to read a review of Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire by Robert Perkinson.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/chain-gang/

Are You Reeling in the Years?

Click on the orange link below to read a review of the novel I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/reeling-in-the-years/

Revenge on Ice

Click on the orange link below to read a review of Revenge Served Cold, an Anne Marshall mystery novel by Jackie Fullerton.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/iced-revenge/

Toronto Law

Click on the orange link below to read a review of the crime novel/legal thriller Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg (Picador trade paperback).

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/old-city-hall/

An Unfocused Journey

Click on the orange link below to read a review of the nonfiction memoir The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/an-unfocused-journey/

The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer

Click on the orange link below to read a review of Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer by Peter Elkind.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/spinning-wheel/

Texas's Tough Prisons

Click on the orange link below to read a review of Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire by Robert Perkinson.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/30-days-in-the-hole/

The Same, But Different

Click on the orange link below to read a review of The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates. You saw Wes Moore on The Oprah Show, not come and read the story of his life - and the story of the "other" Wes Moore.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/the-other-wes-moore/

True Colors

Click on the orange link below to read a review of the unique memoir Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/true-colors/

Freedom rules

Click on the orange link below to read a review of Unbillable Hours: A True Story by Ian Graham. A true tale of the criminal justice system and personal liberation.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/freedom-rules/

Almost Innocent

Click on the orange link below to read a review of the courtroom drama Innocent by Scott Turow. Yes, this is the long-delayed sequel to Presumed Innocent!

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/almost-innocent/