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

By: Miller, Reuben Jonathan [author.]Edition: First editionDescription: vii, 341 pages ; 25 cmISBN: 9780316451512; 0316451517Other title: Race, punishment, and the afterlife of mass incarcerationSubject(s): Ex-convicts -- United States -- Social conditions | Prisoners -- Deinstitutionalization -- United States | Parole -- United States | Imprisonment -- United States | Ex-convicts -- Social conditions | Imprisonment | Parole | Prisoners -- Deinstitutionalization | United StatesDDC classification: 364.80973 LOC classification: HV 9275 | .M55 2021
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! -- Appendix. The gift of proximity.
Summary: 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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-328) and index.

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! -- Appendix. The gift of proximity.

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