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Author:

Miller, Reuben Jonathan, author.

Title:

Halfway home : race, punishment, and the afterlife of mass incarceration / Reuben Jonathan Miller.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

LittleBrown and Company,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

vii, 341 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Ex-convicts--United States--Social conditions.
Prisoners--Deinstitutionalization--United States.
Parole--United States.
Imprisonment--United States.
Case studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-328) and index.

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!

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0316451517
9780316451512

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1233054770

LCCN:

2020938872

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