John L. Hill is a Canadian lawyer who defends criminals and penitentiary inmates. He is also a citizen who wants to live in a safe community where the law is fairly, impartially, and humanely applied. Hill is a triple graduate of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and also holds an Honours B. A. and M. A. in political science and a J. D. from the School of Law. He earned an LL. M. in Constitutional Law from Osgoode Hall Law school in Toronto.
He has lectured internationally on prison law topics at conferences of the International Association of Psychiatry and the Law. Now retired from practice, Hill writes op-ed columns for The Lawyer's Daily on prison law topics. The foreword is by Raphael Rowe, whose career as an investigative journalist and television host was born as a result of spending 12 years in prison for crimes he did not commit. He is author of Notorious and host of Netflix' Inside the World's Toughest Prisons. The afterword is by Keramet Reiter a professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and at the School of Law at the University of California, Irvine.
She is author of 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement.
He has lectured internationally on prison law topics at conferences of the International Association of Psychiatry and the Law. Now retired from practice, Hill writes op-ed columns for The Lawyer's Daily on prison law topics. The foreword is by Raphael Rowe, whose career as an investigative journalist and television host was born as a result of spending 12 years in prison for crimes he did not commit. He is author of Notorious and host of Netflix' Inside the World's Toughest Prisons. The afterword is by Keramet Reiter a professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and at the School of Law at the University of California, Irvine.
She is author of 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement.
