Cover of Halfway Home

Book 2021

Halfway Home

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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Language
English
Published
2021
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Ex-convicts
  • Imprisonment
  • Social conditions
  • Prisoners
  • Deinstitutionalization
  • Parole
  • Libération conditionnelle

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.