When law professor and criminal justice attorney Bryan Stevenson first visited a maximum security prison as a law student he knew little about the justice system. Since then he’s made its reform his life’s work. In Just Mercy, Stevenson shares his experiences from his time as an idealistic young attorney to his founding of the Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit dedicated to helping those who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system. In conversation with writer and senior editor of The Atlantic Ta-Nehisi Coates.