Halfway home : race, punishment, and the afterlife of mass incarceration /

Miller, Reuben Jonathan,

Halfway home : 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 -- I: Debt. Confessions ; Guilt ; Sinnerman -- II: Wage. Millions of details ; In victory and spectacular defeat ; Chains and corpses -- III: Salvation. Treatment ; Power ; America, goddamn!

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.

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

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