{"product_id":"halfway-home-race-punishment-and-the-afterlife-of-mass-incarceration-9780316451482","title":"Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"persuasive and essential\" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's \"stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system\" (Heather Ann Thompson).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReuben 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs \u003ci\u003eThe Color of Law\u003c\/i\u003e exposed about our understanding of housing segregation, \u003ci\u003eHalfway Home \u003c\/i\u003eshows 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInformed 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePEN America 2022 John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the 2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 PROSE Awards Finalist \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e2022 PROSE Awards Category Winner for Cultural Anthropology and Sociology \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Selected 2021 \u003ci\u003eBooks We Love\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs heard on NPR's Fresh Air\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReuben Jonathan Miller \u003c\/b\u003eis a sociologist, criminologist and a social worker who teaches at the University of Chicago in the School of Social Service Administration where he studies and writes about race, democracy, and the social life of the city. He has been a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey, a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin and Dartmouth College. A native son of Chicago, he lives with his wife and children on the city's Southside. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615535173906,"sku":"9780316451482","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5df08af4-15c2-4e40-9908-b15c1c76c69d.jpg?v=1732493313","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/halfway-home-race-punishment-and-the-afterlife-of-mass-incarceration-9780316451482","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}