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As The Color of Law exposed about our understanding of housing segregation, Halfway Home shows that the American justice system was not created to rehabilitate. Parole is structured to keep classes of Americans impoverished, unstable, and disenfranchised long after they've paid their debt to society.  Informed by Miller's experience as the son and brother of incarcerated men, captures the stories of the men, women, and communities fighting against a system that is designed for them to fail. It is a poignant and eye-opening call to arms that reveals how laws, rules, and regulations extract a tangible cost not only from those working to rebuild their lives, but also our democracy. As Miller searchingly explores, America must acknowledge and value the lives of its formerly imprisoned citizens.  PEN America 2022 John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist  Winner of the 2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences  2022 PROSE Awards Finalist  2022 PROSE Awards Category Winner for Cultural Anthropology and Sociology  An NPR Selected 2021 Books We Love  As heard on NPR's Fresh Air","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742120026385,"sku":"NGR9780316451482","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50150941360401,"sku":"CIN0316451487G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50983613366545,"sku":"NIN9780316451482","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51886548320529,"sku":"CIN0316451487VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53482641555729,"sku":"NLS9780316451482","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0316451487.jpg?v=1774951483"},{"product_id":"halfway-home-book-reuben-jonathan-miller-9780316451512","title":"Halfway Home","description":"Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of eight million formerly incarcerated men and women.   As a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and later as a sociologist studying mass incarceration, Reuben Miller spent years embedded with prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their friends and families. What his work among them revealed is a simple, if overlooked truth: in most states in America, life after prison resembles its own prison. The idea of serving one's debt and returning as a full-fledged member of society has been replaced with a new reality of jobs that are off-limits, apartments that cannot be occupied and votes that cannot be cast.  Halfway Home captures the stories of these men and women, focusing in particular on Detroit and Chicago-two with the largest post-prison populations in the country.  This poignant and eye-opening book is a call to arms, revealing how laws, rules and regulations on the books across America extract a real cost not only to the men and women working to rebuild their lives, but also to our democracy.  What's more, as the son and brother of men who have served time in prison, Miller writes searchingly of how necessary it is for Americans to acknowledge those who have served their debt to society.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49789974872337,"sku":"CIN0316451517G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50090369089809,"sku":"CIN0316451517A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50140336587025,"sku":"CIN0316451517VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50730977788177,"sku":"GOR011565299","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0316451517.jpg?v=1750813110"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-reuben-jonathan-miller.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}