Compassion in the Court: Life-Changing Stories from America's Nicest Judge

By Frank Caprio

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Self-Help

Compassion in the Court is a 2025 book by Frank Caprio, the longtime chief municipal judge of Providence, Rhode Island, whose courtroom show Caught in Providence made him known worldwide as America's nicest judge. Caprio shares stories from decades on the bench and from his own childhood as the son of an immigrant milkman, showing how mercy, fairness and a little humor can change people's lives and how justice often works best when tempered with compassion.

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