Tulia : race, cocaine, and corruption in a small Texas town

"A devastating critique of Texas' judicial system and the nation's drug laws, and a riveting legal thriller about the inspirational men and women in and around the town of Tulia, Texas, who refused to let injustice stand."
"A devastating critique of Texas' judicial system and the nation's drug laws, and a riveting legal thriller about the inspirational men and women in and around the town of Tulia, Texas, who refused to let injustice stand."@en
"In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, forty-seven people, most of them black, were charged with dealing cocaine. Despite the flimsiness of the evidence against them, virtually all of the defendants - over ten percent of the town's black population - were convicted and given sentences as high as ninety-nine years. Tulia is the story of this town, the bust, the trials and the heroic legal battle to reverse the convictions - culminating in a courtroom showdown that caught the attention of the nation. Selected by Washington Post Book World as one of the eight most important books ever published about miscarriages of the U.S. criminal justice system, it is a gripping, marvelously well-told tale about race, poverty, hysteria and desperation in rural America."