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A searing expos of the profound failures in our justice system, told by a woman who has journeyed from wrongfully accused prisoner to acclaimed public defender
Keeda Haynes was a Girl Scout and a churchgoer, but after college graduation, she was imprisoned for a crime she didnt commit. Her boyfriend had asked her to sign for some packagespackages she did not know were filled with marijuana. As a young Black woman falsely accused, prosecuted, and ultimately imprisoned, Haynes suffered the abuses of our racist and sexist justice system. But rather than give in to despair, she decided to fight for change. After her release, she attended law school at night, became a public defender, and ultimately staged a highly publicized campaign for Congress. At every turn of her unlikely story, she gives unique insights into the inequities built into our institutions. In the end, despite the injustice she endured, she emerges convinced that ours can become a true second-chance culture.
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Bending the Arc
Keeda Haynes suffered a great injustice, struggled, overcame it, and devoted her life to fighting against a criminal justice system responsible for tremendous harm. This is a timely and inspiring book about a subject that could not be more important.
Eric Schlosser , New York Times bestselling author of Fast Food Nation
Heartrending and heartwarming. Haynes exposes the deep flaws in our justice system, all the while exemplifying the importance of second chances.
Austin Channing Brown , New York Times bestselling author of Im Still Here
A rallying story of horrific injustice and inspiring perseverance. Hayness account of wrongful imprisonment will ignite you into action.
Valarie Kaur, filmmaker and author of See No Stranger
The combination of lived experience with frontline legal expertise creates a riveting story that speaks directly to how we confront the racist underpinnings of mass incarceration by placing humanity and community first.
Amy Fettig , executive director of The Sentencing Project
Keeda Haynes is strong, smart, and resilient. The story of her life is inextricably tied with an examination of our flawed justice system from nearly every possible angle. I came to know Haynes as a gifted and passionate advocate. I now know her to be a terrific writer. Read Bending the Arc .
Kevin Ring, president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums
More than a coming-of-age story, Bending the Arc takes readers on a journey through the US criminal justice system. Hayness book is filled with heartbreak, triumph, and resilience, offering an intimate portrait of a criminal justice system that is callous and fueled by systemic racism, patriarchy, and class hierarchy. Her survival is a testament to familial bonds, community members, and allies in the legal profession who believed in second-chance opportunities and the continued struggle for freedom and justice.
Sekou Franklin, associate professor of political science, Middle Tennessee State University
In Bending the Arc , attorney-activist Keeda Haynes scribes new stanzas, in registers of resistance, of cages, courts, community, and courage. No mere coming-of-age tale of adversity and triumph, her story testifies to the collective power of Black women nurturing, sustaining us towars new incarnations of justice.
Dr. Phyllis Hildreth, vice president for institutional strategy and academics, American Baptist College
Keeda J. Haynes is a criminal justice reform advocate and a former public defender. She is the Voting Rights Campaign Strategist with the Sentencing Project. In 2020, she ran for Congress to represent Tennessees Fifth District. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Copyright 2021 by Keeda J. Haynes
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Haynes, Keeda J., author.
Title: Bending the arc : my journey from prison to politics / Keeda J. Haynes.
Description: First edition. | New York : Seal Press, 2021.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021013553 | ISBN 9781541646308 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781541646292 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Haynes, Keeda J. | Women ex-convictsTennesseeBiography. | African American womenTennesseeBiography. | Public defendersTennesseeBiography. | African American women lawyersTennesseeBiography. | Criminal justice, Administration ofTennessee. | Discrimination in criminal justice administrationUnited States. | African American women political candidatesTennesseeBiography.
Classification: LCC HV9955.T2 H38 2021 | DDC 364.8092 [B]dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021013553
ISBNs: 978-1-5416-4630-8 (hardcover), 978-1-5416-4629-2 (ebook)
E3-20211007-JV-NF-ORI
This book is dedicated to Shirlene Pinky German, my grandmother, and Susie Lee Sue Lee German, my great-grandmother. I miss you and love you always.
Nobodys free until everybodys free.
Fannie Lou Hamer
C ount Time!
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Standing in my cinderblock cubicle next to my new roommateor bunkie, as I learned they were calledI watched the stone-faced corrections officers walk past each cubicle counting the women standing there. There was a cold glossiness in their eyes, so I didnt dare make eye contact.
One of the guards must have noticed that I was a new face because as he approached, he slowed up and stopped right in front of me.
Name? he asked.
Keeda Haynes, I responded.
Number?
I looked down at the ID card hanging around my neck, remembering being told that we were required to wear it at all times so that we could be identified at any given moment. Like cattle with cow tags , I thought. Or, like slaves.
00017. I read. 011.
The officer smirked as he walked away. Youd better get used to that number; thats who you are now.
For the next almost four years, I was not Keeda J. Haynes, promising recent college graduate with aspirations of continuing on to law school. Instead, I was number 00017-011. An inmate, a statistic, a casualty of the War on Drugs in America, which had been ravaging Black and brown communities for decades.
All for a crime I did not commit.
Though the reality of the injustice was overwhelming, I refused to let this experience define me. I vowed that I would not let it be the end of my story.
My experiences as a Black woman in the criminal legal system have led me on a relentless journey to reimagine justice into a more equitable vision. My lifes work, my personal mission, is devoted to dismantling the forces responsible for the fundamentally corrupt system our country is built on.
One of the pillars of our democracy is based on the idea of equal justice under law. Weve all heard this term in some form. The words are etched in stone on the US Supreme Court building in Washington, DC, derived, in part, from the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution: No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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