Halfway Home

By Reuben Jonathan Miller,

Book cover of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

Book description

Each 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.

Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and now a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent years alongside prisoners, ex-prisoners, their…

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1 author picked Halfway Home as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Reuben Jonathan Miller’s book Halfway Home illuminates the ways men get forced to carry prison with them after release, in everything from struggling to find work to being unable to drive a car.

Telling the stories of people he first met as a chaplain at Cook County Jail, Miller walks alongside men as we see the painful and lasting impacts of prison on them and their lives.

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