Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities
|
Buy Now
Halfway Home - Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
Loot Price: R374
Discovery Miles 3 740
You Save: R72
(16%)
|
|
Halfway Home - Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
(sign in to rate)
List price R446
Loot Price R374
Discovery Miles 3 740
You Save R72 (16%)
Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days
|
Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from
prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with
a felony record. Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail
in Chicago and now a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent
years alongside prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends, and their
families to understand the lifelong burden that even a single
arrest can entail. What his work revealed is a simple, if
overlooked truth: life after incarceration is its own form of
prison. The idea that one can serve their debt and return to life
as a full-fledge member of society is one of America's most
nefarious myths. Recently released individuals are faced with jobs
that are off-limits, apartments that cannot be occupied and votes
that cannot be cast. As The Color of Law exposed about our
understanding of housing segregation, Halfway Home shows that the
American justice system was not created to rehabilitate. Parole is
structured to keep classes of Americans impoverished, unstable, and
disenfranchised long after they've paid their debt to society.
Informed by Miller's experience as the son and brother of
incarcerated men, captures the stories of the men, women, and
communities fighting against a system that is designed for them to
fail. It is a poignant and eye-opening call to arms that reveals
how laws, rules, and regulations extract a tangible cost not only
from those working to rebuild their lives, but also our democracy.
As Miller searchingly explores, America must acknowledge and value
the lives of its formerly imprisoned citizens. PEN America 2022
John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist Winner of the
2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences 2022 PROSE
Awards Finalist 2022 PROSE Awards Category Winner for Cultural
Anthropology and Sociology An NPR Selected 2021 Books We Love As
heard on NPR's Fresh Air
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.