Nearly 20 Million Americans Have a Felony Record. What Happens After They’ve Served Their Time?

The New York Times, February 3, 2021: Nearly 20 Million Americans Have a Felony Record. What Happens After They’ve Served Their Time?

Review of Reuben Jonathan Miller’s Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

“Miller wants us to understand incarceration’s ‘afterlife’ — how prison follows people ‘like a ghost,’ a permanent specter in the lives of the 19.6 million Americans who have a felony record. These people have done their time, but they’re still constrained by what Miller, who teaches at the University of Chicago, describes as ‘an alternate form of citizenship.’ There are some 45,000 federal and state laws that regulate where they can work, where they can live and whether they can vote. They reside in a ‘hidden social world and an alternate legal reality.’”

Additional reading:

Halfway Home on Bookshop.org

NPR, February 2, 2021: 'Halfway Home' Makes Case That The Formerly Incarcerated Are Never Truly Free

Marketplace, February 1, 2021: An excerpt from Halfway Home