"From the critically acclaimed author of High-risers comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system-through the lens of parole. Perfect for fans of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy The United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world's incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichés-paying a debt to society; you do the crime, you do the time-there...

"Parole is named after Camp Parole, a Union prisoner-of-war exchange camp built during the Civil War. Over 70,000 soldiers were processed through Camp Parole. After the Civil War ended, many of the formerly enslaved made homes and developed businesses on the former campsite and many of their descendants own land and live in the community. Initially, Parole was part of Anne Arundel County and in 1951 was annexed as a part of the city of Annapolis....

KIDS BEHIND BARS: LIFE OR PAROLE tells the individual stories of eight previously convicted child offenders sentenced to mandatory life terms, without parole.

The acclaimed directorial debut from veteran Austrian actor Karl Markovics (star of the Academy Award-winning The counterfeiters), is an eloquent, affecting portrait of an incarcerated teenager (newcomer Thomas Schubert) attempting to win parole by working at a local morgue. Raised from birth in institutions, he is initially impassive and self-sabotaging in his behavior; soon, though, he begins to respect the solemn work of handling the dead, and...

A Chicago Cook County Jail chaplain and mass-incarceration sociologist examines the lifelong realities of a criminal record, demonstrating how America's justice system is less about rehabilitation and more about structured disenfranchisement.

"From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand-new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's...

This volume focuses on the social and moral issues surrounding crime, prisons, and jails.

"Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller Lee Child has selected the twenty most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume."--Amazon.