Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

How states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder.

In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man from Dallas, was convicted of murdering white businessman Jeffrey Young--a crime he didn't commit. From the day of his arrest, Spencer insisted that it was "an awful mistake." The Texas legal system didn't see it that way. It allowed shoddy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 059342008X
• ISBN13: 9780593420089
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 464 Pages