{"id":145008,"date":"2026-02-27T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/27\/the-human-cost-of-our-broken-justice-system\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:37:40","slug":"the-human-cost-of-our-broken-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/27\/the-human-cost-of-our-broken-justice-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human Cost Of Our Broken Justice System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of The Jabot Podcast, I sit down with public defender, reform advocate, and author Emily Galvin Almanza to discuss her new book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/763496\/the-price-of-mercy-by-emily-galvin-almanza\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Price of Mercy: Unfair Trials, a Violent System, and a Public Defender\u2019s Search for Justice in America<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Emily shares her unexpected path into law, her deep commitment to criminal defense, and the emotional realities of representing clients navigating one of the most consequential systems in American society. Drawing from years in public defense and her work co-founding Partners for Justice, she explains why the criminal legal system often punishes instability rather than crime \u2014 and how policy choices, not individual morality, frequently determine who enters the system.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation explores burnout among defenders, systemic misconceptions about criminal courts, the role of compassion in policy reform, and the economic and social costs of incarceration. Ultimately, the episode reframes justice not as punishment, but as a question of public safety, community stability, and human dignity.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/the-human-cost-of-our-broken-justice-system\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Human Cost Of Our Broken Justice System<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of The Jabot Podcast, I sit down with public defender, reform advocate, and author Emily Galvin Almanza to discuss her new book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/763496\/the-price-of-mercy-by-emily-galvin-almanza\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Price of Mercy: Unfair Trials, a Violent System, and a Public Defender\u2019s Search for Justice in America<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Emily shares her unexpected path into law, her deep commitment to criminal defense, and the emotional realities of representing clients navigating one of the most consequential systems in American society. Drawing from years in public defense and her work co-founding Partners for Justice, she explains why the criminal legal system often punishes instability rather than crime \u2014 and how policy choices, not individual morality, frequently determine who enters the system.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation explores burnout among defenders, systemic misconceptions about criminal courts, the role of compassion in policy reform, and the economic and social costs of incarceration. Ultimately, the episode reframes justice not as punishment, but as a question of public safety, community stability, and human dignity.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/the-human-cost-of-our-broken-justice-system\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Human Cost Of Our Broken Justice System<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of The Jabot Podcast, I sit down with public defender, reform advocate, and author Emily Galvin Almanza to discuss her new book The Price of Mercy: Unfair Trials, a Violent System, and a Public Defender\u2019s Search for Justice in America. Emily shares her unexpected path into law, her deep commitment to criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}