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The Long Way Home
A Guide for The Ex-Felon, How to get Out and Stay Out

Overview



This book is a guide, to help those who have been inside;


  • Show them how to  write a resume with little to know work experience,

  • Help them to overcome the criminal background checks,

  • Help them to use the internet, without leaving a foot digital print

  • How to avoid discussion their background with potential employers

  • how to get a new SSN,


People working on the behalf of the incarcerated Must understand the issues;


  •  Willful exploitation of convicted felons, that is state sponsored

  • Prison Industries, are the drive force behind mass incarceration

  • Rule 35 “the snitch policy” has put many inside without a shred of evidence

    Llong term isolation, mandatory lock downs and the SHU is torture.

  • Why most halfway houses are just another obstacle

  • The prison experience, its a socialization process is making hard for these people to re-adjust once released


There is so much, this is tool to help you help them that are struggle to regain their lives. 

Read more

Description


The readers will learn the history of the penal system, which once was rooted in morality and reform. However, post civil war, the criminal justice system began to used as a weapon against the black population's growth, and continued now, for over 150 years.

The reader will learn of the battles between labor unions and state governments, to keep industries out of prisons. Read how they forced them out only for them to return, and bring changes which result, in the establishing the prisons as a business, generating jobs to save dying rural communities, an excuse to funds the expansion of law enforcements' agencies and provide billions, for those in the know, in the form of contracts, goods and services.

This will open your eyes, learn of the socialization process, the prison experience, and the brutality that under-develops these people, making it difficult to re-adjust to society once released.   

And if the reader by chance is working with the post-incarcerated, they’ll learn how to orientation the newly released on "the social media trap," and what to consider when facing the "criminal background checks. These and other view points of recidivism, are all from the perspective of those inside the prison walls.


Read more

About the author


Author, lost his mother due to a suicide at three year old. He would be adopted twice more, he would spend most of his youth in state custody in the form of orphanages, group homes, and juvenile institutions. At age 18, he found himself in jail waiting to go into the prison system.  

At age twenty six, still inside, he began his journey of self-development. He received his GED and received state and national certification, in several vocational trades but above all, he also began the work of helping others in their growth and development till his he was released at age thirty nine.

Read more

Book details

Genre:SOCIAL SCIENCE

Subgenre:Penology

Language:English

Pages:248

eBook ISBN:9781098304843

Paperback ISBN:9781098304836


Overview



This book is a guide, to help those who have been inside;


  • Show them how to  write a resume with little to know work experience,

  • Help them to overcome the criminal background checks,

  • Help them to use the internet, without leaving a foot digital print

  • How to avoid discussion their background with potential employers

  • how to get a new SSN,


People working on the behalf of the incarcerated Must understand the issues;


  •  Willful exploitation of convicted felons, that is state sponsored

  • Prison Industries, are the drive force behind mass incarceration

  • Rule 35 “the snitch policy” has put many inside without a shred of evidence

    Llong term isolation, mandatory lock downs and the SHU is torture.

  • Why most halfway houses are just another obstacle

  • The prison experience, its a socialization process is making hard for these people to re-adjust once released


There is so much, this is tool to help you help them that are struggle to regain their lives. 

Read more

Description


The readers will learn the history of the penal system, which once was rooted in morality and reform. However, post civil war, the criminal justice system began to used as a weapon against the black population's growth, and continued now, for over 150 years.

The reader will learn of the battles between labor unions and state governments, to keep industries out of prisons. Read how they forced them out only for them to return, and bring changes which result, in the establishing the prisons as a business, generating jobs to save dying rural communities, an excuse to funds the expansion of law enforcements' agencies and provide billions, for those in the know, in the form of contracts, goods and services.

This will open your eyes, learn of the socialization process, the prison experience, and the brutality that under-develops these people, making it difficult to re-adjust to society once released.   

And if the reader by chance is working with the post-incarcerated, they’ll learn how to orientation the newly released on "the social media trap," and what to consider when facing the "criminal background checks. These and other view points of recidivism, are all from the perspective of those inside the prison walls.


Read more

About the author


Author, lost his mother due to a suicide at three year old. He would be adopted twice more, he would spend most of his youth in state custody in the form of orphanages, group homes, and juvenile institutions. At age 18, he found himself in jail waiting to go into the prison system.  

At age twenty six, still inside, he began his journey of self-development. He received his GED and received state and national certification, in several vocational trades but above all, he also began the work of helping others in their growth and development till his he was released at age thirty nine.

Read more