Prologue: Victorville, 2010
Chapter 1: A Fishing Trip to Ellis Prison
Chapter 2: Death at Turkey Creek
Chapter 3: Estelle's Bitterness
Chapter 4: A Confusing Scene
Chapter 5: The Aura of Ellis
Chapter 6: The Witch and the Writ Writers
Chapter 7: The Question of the Gun
Chapter 8: The Shadow of Ruiz
Chapter 9: Weasel
Chapter 10: The Dangers of Testifying
Chapter 11: Old Thing
Chapter 12: Eroy as Aggressor
Chapter 13: The Defense Is Self-Defense
Chapter 14: Eroy's Story
Chapter 15: The Perfect Defendant
Chapter 16: The TDC on Trial
Chapter 17: The Arc of the Moral Universe
Chapter 18: The Shoes of Eroy Brown
Chapter 19: Politics and Prisons
Chapter 20: The State Tries Again
Chapter 21: A Cat Batters a Mouse
Chapter 22: Twenty-Three Jurors
Chapter 23: Still Not Protected
Chapter 24: Paying for Justice
Chapter 25: The End of an Era
Chapter 26: Free at Last
Chapter 27: Aftermath
Notes
A Note on the Sources
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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The shocking story of the black inmate who was acquitted after killing two high-ranking prison guards in a case that publicized the horrors of Texas's "plantation-style" prison system

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Recipient of the Texas Institute of Letters prize for nonfiction, Michael Berryhill has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times magazine, Harper's, The New Republic, and the Houston Chronicle. He chairs the journalism program at Texas Southern University.

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Well documented and unsentimental, Berryhill's account of this infamous 30-year-old murder case that pitted one man's innocent plea against Texas's political might provides a jarring portrait of a once-medieval state prison. (Publishers Weekly) Michael Berryhill tells Brown's side of the story with care and skill...the story contributes to the growing literature on Texas prisons and prison histories, and it resonates beyond this topic. - Norwood Andrews, University of Texas-Pan American (The Journal of Southern History)

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