Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration 0316451517, 9780316451512

A “persuasive and essential” (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America

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Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
0316451517, 9780316451512

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Reuben Jonathan Miller

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Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Something Like an Introduction
– 1 – Debt
Chapter 1: Confession
Chapter 2: Guilt
Chapter 3: Sinnerman
– II – Wage
Chapter 4: Millions of Details
Chapter 5: In Victory and Spectacular Defeat
Chapter 6: Chains and Corpses
– III – Salvation
Chapter 7: Treatment
Chapter 8: Power
Chapter 9: America, Goddamn!
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
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Appendix: The Gift of Proximity
Notes
About the Author

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