Pocket Guide to Washington Criminal Laws
Author | : Pocket Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020 |
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ISBN | : 9781884493423 |
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Author | : Pocket Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020 |
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ISBN | : 9781884493423 |
Author | : Reuben Jonathan Miller |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2021-02-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0316451495 |
A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson). Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record. 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. As The Color of Law exposed about our understanding of housing segregation, Halfway Home shows that the American justice system was not created to rehabilitate. Parole is structured to keep classes of Americans impoverished, unstable, and disenfranchised long after they've paid their debt to society. Informed by Miller's experience as the son and brother of incarcerated men, captures the stories of the men, women, and communities fighting against a system that is designed for them to fail. It is a poignant and eye-opening call to arms that reveals how laws, rules, and regulations extract a tangible cost not only from those working to rebuild their lives, but also our democracy. As Miller searchingly explores, America must acknowledge and value the lives of its formerly imprisoned citizens. PEN America 2022 John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist Winner of the 2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences 2022 PROSE Awards Finalist 2022 PROSE Awards Category Winner for Cultural Anthropology and Sociology An NPR Selected 2021 Books We Love As heard on NPR’s Fresh Air
Author | : Pocket Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2020 |
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ISBN | : 9781884493676 |
Author | : Pocket Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2020 |
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ISBN | : 9781884493515 |
Author | : United States Sentencing Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1988-10 |
Genre | : Sentences (Criminal procedure) |
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Author | : Pocket Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781884493768 |
Author | : Pocket Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020 |
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ISBN | : 9781884493508 |
Author | : Brittany K. Barnett |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2021-08-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1984825801 |
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • A “powerful and devastating” (The Washington Post) call to free those buried alive by America’s legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity—from a gifted young lawyer and important new voice in the movement to transform the system. “An essential book for our time . . . Brittany K. Barnett is a star.”—Van Jones, CEO of REFORM Alliance, CNN Host, and New York Times bestselling author Brittany K. Barnett was only a law student when she came across the case that would change her life forever—that of Sharanda Jones, single mother, business owner, and, like Brittany, Black daughter of the rural South. A victim of America’s devastating war on drugs, Sharanda had been torn away from her young daughter and was serving a life sentence without parole—for a first-time drug offense. In Sharanda, Brittany saw haunting echoes of her own life, as the daughter of a formerly incarcerated mother. As she studied this case, a system came into focus in which widespread racial injustice forms the core of America’s addiction to incarceration. Moved by Sharanda’s plight, Brittany set to work to gain her freedom. This had never been the plan. Bright and ambitious, Brittany was a successful accountant on her way to a high-powered future in corporate law. But Sharanda’s case opened the door to a harrowing journey through the criminal justice system. By day she moved billion-dollar deals, and by night she worked pro bono to free clients in near hopeless legal battles. Ultimately, her path transformed her understanding of injustice in the courts, of genius languishing behind bars, and the very definition of freedom itself. Brittany’s riveting memoir is at once a coming-of-age story and a powerful evocation of what it takes to bring hope and justice to a system built to resist them both. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS
Author | : Pocket Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Criminal law |
ISBN | : 9781884493478 |
Author | : Pocket Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Criminal law |
ISBN | : 9781884493324 |