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

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

Summary

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.

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!

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Description
vii, 341 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company 2021

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 364.8 MIL in Adult Non-fiction Available

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