Excerpts from an interview with Manohar Raju, Manager, Felony Unit, San Francisco Public Defender's Office, talking about overcoming bias in the American criminal justice system. See the blog at Telling Times (http://tellingtimes.me/)

Telling Times is a new website and podcast series examining some of the most pressing issues facing America today.  Its author is Priya Kothari, an economist, living in San Francisco.

Telling Times shines a light on these issues by talking directly to those people who are affected, to organizations working to tackle these issues and by drawing on the latest academic research, to tell a story about the America that we live in today.

It has no political message.  It is simply a contribution to the debate.

And if it sheds a new light on darker aspects of our world, then it will have done its job.