This is America: Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

In this moment of deep crisis and social upheaval in our country, the time is ripe to look closer at the reality facing our most vulnerable citizens. More than half a million Americans are released from prison every year, and they join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record. While a number of remarkable books have focused on America’s high incarceration rates and the reality of life in prison, life for those who have paid their debt to society hasn’t been as well explored. In a vividly reported, character-driven examination of the millions of formerly incarcerated Americans facing crushing odds of finding a home or a job, author and former jail chaplain Reuben Jonathan Miller tells the story of life after incarceration. In HALFWAY HOME: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, Miller weaves together stories about criminal justice, social justice, poverty, and race as he exposes the realities of parole, the police, and the millions of details that shape social life in the wake of a conviction.