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

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

A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carc…

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