Jailhouse lawyer. James Patterson & Nancy Allen. 2021.

A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown - and ends up behind bars……

In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama the most serious crimes are misdemeanours. Speeding. Shoplifting. Contempt of court.

Why then is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There’s only one place to learn the truth.

Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch of hard time.