This is a merciless account of mass injustice and inhumanity told with a massive amount of grace. Bryan Stevenson works in the trenches with people who are wrongfully convicted, sentenced to death row, or facing life imprisonment. Many of them children. An eye-opening, heart-rending, must-read book that shows the policies that led us here and the work being done to challenge this inhuman system.

There's also a version that had been adapted for YA readers that is excellent — for YA and adults.