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Podcast: Big Brains
Episode: Why Life After Incarceration Is Just Another Prison, with Reuben Jonathan Miller
Description: For the more than 20 million people with a felony record, incarceration doesnât end at the prison gate. They enter what University of Chicago scholar Reuben Jonathan Miller calls the âafterlifeâ 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 Incarcerationâan intimate portrait that draws on his sociological research and personal experiences. Itâs a unique sociological look at our system of mass incarceration and how it continues to imprison people after their...