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• Introduction
• Understanding desistance
• The context
• Lives spiraling out of control
• A life sentence
• A productive, law-abiding citizen
• Life after life imprisonment
• Residual effects of imprisonment
• Going back
• Staying out
• Reconsidering lifer reentry
• Notes.

One out of every ten prisoners in the United States is serving a life sentence-roughly 130,000 people. While some have been sentenced to life in prison without parole, the majority of prisoners serving 'life' will be released back into society. But what becomes of those people who reenter the everyday world after serving life in prison? In After Life Imprisonment, Marieke Liem carefully examines the experiences of "lifers" upon release. Through interviews with over sixty homicide offenders sentenced to life but granted parole, Liem tracks those able to build a new life on the outside and those who were re-incarcerated. The interviews reveal prisoners' reflections on being sentenced to life, as well as the challenges of employment, housing, and interpersonal relationships upon release. Liem explores the increase in handing out of life sentences, and specifically provides a basis for discussions of the goals, costs, and effects of long-term imprisonment, ultimately unpacking public policy and discourse surrounding long-term incarceration. A profound criminological examination, After Life Imprisonment reveals the untold, lived experiences of prisoners before and after their life sentences.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Introduction
• Understanding desistance
• The context
• Lives spiraling out of control
• A life sentence
• A productive, law-abiding citizen
• Life after life imprisonment
• Residual effects of imprisonment
• Going back
• Staying out
• Reconsidering lifer reentry.

One out of every ten prisoners in the United States is serving a life sentence-roughly 130,000 people. While some have been sentenced to life in prison without parole, the majority of prisoners serving 'life' will be released back into society. But what becomes of those people who reenter the everyday world after serving life in prison? In After Life Imprisonment, Marieke Liem carefully examines the experiences of "lifers" upon release. Through interviews with over sixty homicide offenders sentenced to life but granted parole, Liem tracks those able to build a new life on the outside and those who were re-incarcerated. The interviews reveal prisoners' reflections on being sentenced to life, as well as the challenges of employment, housing, and interpersonal relationships upon release. Liem explores the increase in handing out of life sentences, and specifically provides a basis for discussions of the goals, costs, and effects of long-term imprisonment, ultimately unpacking public policy and discourse surrounding long-term incarceration. A profound criminological examination, After Life Imprisonment reveals the untold, lived experiences of prisoners before and after their life sentences.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Leo Martin is an ex-con, released after imprisonment for a jewel theft. He swears vengeance on his former accomplices and devises an intricate plan to steal their fortune.

Leo Martin is an ex-con, released after imprisonment for a jewel theft. He swears vengeance on his former accomplices and devises an intricate plan to steal their fortune.

A place to stand is a documentary film about the life of the poet, Jimmy Santiago Baca. It depicts his transformation from a functionally illiterate convict to an award-winning poet, novelist, and screenwriter. Some of Baca's poems are interspersed throughout the narrative.

• Getting out and staying out
• What is your best path to success?
• Selecting a school or a program
• Cut the costs down to size
• Go for it! : here's how
• How to use the school listings
• Graduate study (master's and PH.D. degrees)
• Undergraduate degrees : two-year associate and four year bachelor's degree
• College-level religious studies
• Career and vocational studies
• High-school studies
• Fee-based Bible studies
• Free Bible studies
• Personal enrichment studies
• Going home for help
• How to search for jobs
• Appendix I. Federal Bureau of Prison program statements
• Appendix II. Reliable accreditation organizations
• Appendix III. State Departments of Correctional Education coordinators
• Appendix IV. Federal financial aid for incarcerated individuals FAQ
• Appendix V. Facts and figures
• Appendix VI. Sample letter to request information from schools
• Appendix VII. How to get documentation for your GED.

""Whimsy and depression have rarely been so purely and movingly juxtaposed. Sometimes humorous, often harrowing, always compassionate."--Elle magazine on My Depression -- Former child prodigy and rich-girl kleptomaniac, Ester--renamed into the gentile Carleen for her own protection--is incarcerated after a botched heist. For two decades, time is the enemy. Her twenties and thirties crawl by in stifling isolation. When finally let loose onto the streets of New York, she finds a job wrestling spoiled canines as a dog walker in Manhattan's most elite neighborhoods, relating better with their brutish instincts than with their human owners. Determined to also prove herself a real person, Carleen tries to reconnect with her estranged and ferociously Orthodox daughter. Amid the strained brunch dates, unsent letters, and the continuing trauma of prison, Carleen begins a slow and halting process of self-discovery. Strikingly funny and self aware, this belated coming-of-age novel asks the question: How do you restart after crashing your first chance at life? Perhaps best known for her Broadway hit Runaways, Elizabeth Swados has composed, written, and directed for over thirty years. She has also published novels, nonfiction, and children's books to great acclaim, and received the KEN Award as well as a New York Public Library Award for her book My Depression: A Picture Book (Seven Stories Press, 2015), which was adapted into an HBO documentary starring Sigourney Weaver and Fred Armisen. Other awards include five Tony nominations, three Obie Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Ford Grant, the Helen Hayes Award, a Lila Acheson Wallace Grant, a PEN Citation, and others"-- Provided by publisher.
"A former child prodigy and kleptomaniac, Ester--who rechristens herself as a gentile, Carleen--lands in prison for decades after a botched heist. Let loose onto the streets of New York, Carleen begins a halted process of self-discovery, wrestling spoiled uptown canines as a dog walker and attempting to connect with her estranged, ferociously orthodox daughter"-- Provided by publisher.