Prison

Two reasons to think about the criminal justice system:

First: the This American Life re-run of  Act V. If you haven't listened to the show, it's worth your time. Essentially the entire show is devoted to the St. Louis based Prison Performing Arts production of Hamlet. The show offers a really unique perspective on Hamlet from the view point of convicted criminals. As Jack Hitt puts it "It's a play about murder and its consequences, performed by murderers, living out the consequences."

Second: the movie Conviction.

Betty Ann Waters continues to put her education and experience to work by volunteering with The Innocence Project-an organization dedicated to "exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent further injustice."