Author Bios

Robert Perkinson is a professor at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. His book, 'Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire,' is a history of the American criminal justice system from …

Mary L. Wentworth is a writer and political commentator based in Amherst, Massachusetts.  

Dr. Evaggelos Vallianatos, a former EPA analyst, is the author of ‘This Land Is Their Land’ and ‘The Passion of the Greeks.’