The Long Way Home

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.