Professor Espada takes pride in teaching nearly illiterate men to read, in
counseling younger inmates, and in helping others work through their cases in the library.
As a
young lawyer defending poor
inmates on Alabama's death row, Stevenson uncovers unconscionable flaws in the criminal justice system — racial bias, abuse of power, excessive punishment, denied access to legal
counsel — concluding that «the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.»