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

"Reuben Jonathan Miller’s impressive debut, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, takes on an often-ignored aspect of the U.S. criminal justice system: the fact that even those who leave incarceration are, in many ways, never truly free. Labyrinthine rules and regulations govern the lives of the released and can mean ineligibility for student loans and public housing or the inability to live in a home that has a foster child. Miller combines data with the lived experiences of the people behind the numbers to create a compelling critique of a deeply problematic system."