Joseph T. "Joe" Hallinan is an American

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and

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. He has written on the criminal justice system in the

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. While a journalist with the ''

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'' he and Susan M. Headden shared the

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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting "for their shocking series on

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in the state." Hallinan was named a

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at Harvard. He has written ''Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation'' (2001). Hallinan has taught at a number of American colleges and universities, and was most recently a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has appeared on a variety of radio and television programs in the U.S. and abroad, including NPR's ''Fresh Air'' with Teri Gross and ''The O'Reilly Factor'' on Fox News. Hallinan is a 1984 magna cum laude graduate of

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. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Pamela Taylor, and their three children.

Books

* ''Errornomics'' * ''Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, And Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average'' * ''Going Up The River: Travels in a Prison Nation'' * ''Kidding Ourselves''

References

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