Halfway home : race, punishment, and the afterlife of mass incarceration /
Miller, Reuben Jonathan,
Halfway home : race, punishment, and the afterlife of mass incarceration / Race, punishment, and the afterlife of mass incarceration Reuben Jonathan Miller. - First edition. - vii, 341 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-328) and index.
Something like an introduction -- Debt. Confessions -- Guilt -- Sinnerman -- Wage. Millions of details -- In victory and spectacular defeat -- Chains and corpses -- Salvation. Treatment -- Power -- America, goddamn! -- The gift of proximity. I. II. III. Appendix.
Miller, a Chicago Cook County Jail chaplain and mass-incarceration sociologist, examines the lifelong realities of a criminal record. He demonstrates how America's justice system is less about rehabilitation and more about structured disenfranchisement. In doing so, he captures the stories of the men, women, and communities fighting against a system that is designed for them to fail. -- adapted from jacket
9780316451512 0316451517
2020938872
020079946 Uk
Ex-convicts--Social conditions.--United States
Prisoners--Deinstitutionalization--United States.
Parole--United States.
Imprisonment--United States.
Ex-convicts--Social conditions.
Imprisonment.
Parole.
Prisoners--Deinstitutionalization.
United States.
HV 9275 / .M55 2021
364.80973
Halfway home : race, punishment, and the afterlife of mass incarceration / Race, punishment, and the afterlife of mass incarceration Reuben Jonathan Miller. - First edition. - vii, 341 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-328) and index.
Something like an introduction -- Debt. Confessions -- Guilt -- Sinnerman -- Wage. Millions of details -- In victory and spectacular defeat -- Chains and corpses -- Salvation. Treatment -- Power -- America, goddamn! -- The gift of proximity. I. II. III. Appendix.
Miller, a Chicago Cook County Jail chaplain and mass-incarceration sociologist, examines the lifelong realities of a criminal record. He demonstrates how America's justice system is less about rehabilitation and more about structured disenfranchisement. In doing so, he captures the stories of the men, women, and communities fighting against a system that is designed for them to fail. -- adapted from jacket
9780316451512 0316451517
2020938872
020079946 Uk
Ex-convicts--Social conditions.--United States
Prisoners--Deinstitutionalization--United States.
Parole--United States.
Imprisonment--United States.
Ex-convicts--Social conditions.
Imprisonment.
Parole.
Prisoners--Deinstitutionalization.
United States.
HV 9275 / .M55 2021
364.80973