Title: Halfway home : race, punishment, and the afterlife of mass incarceration /
Authors: Miller, Reuben Jonathan
Year: 2021
Subjects: Ex-convicts United States Social conditions.; Prisoners Deinstitutionalization United States.; Parole United States; Imprisonment United States
Abstract: A Chicago Cook County Jail chaplain and mass-incarceration sociologist examines the lifelong realities of a criminal record, demonstrating how America's justice system is less about rehabilitation and more about structured disenfranchisement.
Contents: Something like an introduction -- I: Debt. Confessions ; Guilt ; Sinnerman -- II: Wage. Millions of details ; In victory and spectacular defeat ; Chains and corpses -- III: Salvation. Treatment ; Power ; America, goddamn!