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. Miller, a Chicago Cook County Jail chaplain and mass-incarceration sociologist, examines the lifelong realities of a criminal record. He demonstrates how America's justice system is less about rehabilitation and more about structured disenfranchisement. In doing so, he captures the stories of the men, women, and communities fighting against a system that is designed for them to fail. -- adapted from jacket

Something like an introduction --I. Debt. Confessions -- Guilt -- Sinnerman -- II. Wage. Millions of details -- In victory and spectacular defeat -- Chains and corpses -- III. Salvation. Treatment -- Power -- America, goddamn! -- Appendix. The gift of proximity.