Why Life After Incarceration Is Just Another Prison, with Reuben Jonathan Miller

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For the more than 20 million people with a felony record, incarceration doesn’t end at the prison gate. They enter what Reuben Jonathan Miller calls the “afterlife” of mass incarceration. Miller, an assistant professor at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice, is the author of a new book, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration—a unique sociological look at our system of mass incarceration and how it continues to imprison people after their sen