Halfway Home

An emotionally moving book about mass incarceration and our criminal justice system's interaction with the rest of our culture. This book, both personal and systemic, does not provide new information but it does wrap it into a logical and compelling argument to re-think the entire system to make cit......more

An excellent book on an important topic, this one is a combination of memoir, journalism and scholarship, exploring the intersection of poverty, racism and mass incarceration in America: the sorts of lives and police tactics and other systemic issues that land poor black men in jails and prisons, an......more

I found this to be a tremendous read! Well written, Halfway Home talks about the challenge that the incarcerated endure not only while traversing the prison system, but what awaits them once they are done. So much of what we see and hear on the news or in movies depicts the criminal activity that le......more

One of my faves of 2025 so far “A sociology of being together takes proximity as a method and an analysis, because, to the careful social scientist, proximity is a gift.” (297)......more

I have always had the “do the crime do the time” personality, after reading halfway home it has softened my attitude toward crime and punishment. The authors explains that after people are released from long prison sentences they depend on an “economy of favors” usually leaning on family members for......more