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

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 friends, and their families to understand the lifelong burden that even a single arrest can entail. What his work revealed is a simple, if overlooked truth: life after incarceration is its own form of prison. The idea that one can serve their debt and return to life as a full-fledge member of society is one of America’s most nefarious myths. Recently released individuals are faced with jobs that are off-limits, apartments that cannot be occupied and votes that cannot be cast. watch?v=A_XmlxXoM_w
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• twitter .com/NPR/status/1375368386134339584 (‘ Thousands of restrictions dictate the terms of life after incarceration. Some ban people with records from gaining employment. Others prevent them from accessing homes. A new book, “Halfway Home,” explores the aftereffects of mass incarceration. via @Cleavon_MD, Dr. Cleavon Gilman ‘)
• twitter .com/staceyabrams/status/1375226961568657409 (‘ #SB202  suppresses voters, criminalizes compassion & seizes election authority from local + state officials. In 11 years, I never witnessed a massive bill approved at such speed and signed in such desperation. This wasn’t efficiency or principle. This is cowardice. #gapol 1/2 ‘)
• twitter .com/POTUS/status/1375228591630381057 (‘  President Biden : The Republican efforts to block Americans from voting are sick, pernicious, and despicable.   via @Cleavon_MD  ‘)
• twitter .com/mmpadellan/status/1375223790150549504 (‘  BrooklynDad_Defiant! : Georgia Governor Brian Kemp just signed a voter suppression bill to make it harder or impossible for Black Voters‘ voices to be heard. Would love to see Stacey Abrams take his job.   ‘)
• twitter .com/MaryLTrump/status/1375224585973555201 (‘  Mary L Trump  :  It looks like Georgia republicans have learned from history. They just keep learning the wrong lessons. What a travesty.  #VoterSuppression #JimCrow    ‘)
• twitter .com/RBReich/status/1375528612460326912 (‘ Biden : “I once again urge Congress to pass For the People Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.” Good! That starts with ending the filibuster. Get Manchin and Sinema to fall in line so Dems can get this done. Robert Reich ‘)
• twitter .com/benedictrogers (‘ Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the struggle to remake Indonesia .  via  Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 ‘)
• marchehua .com (‘ My friends from Hong Kong, pro-democracy are arrested by the encroachment of beijing in hong kong on 23-11-2020, they are in prison, So I share their story to help them, Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 ,   #save12hkyouths, THANK YOU ‘)