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• "Rights of Citizenship Are Conditional Rights": Disenfranchisement, Honor, and
• Trust in the Criminal Codes before German Unification
• Institutions of Honor: A Leveling Society Searching to Protect Its Institutions
• Political Offenders vs. Common Criminals: Challenging the Distinction
• "The Chain of Dishonor": Petitioning for Rehabilitation in Imperial Germany
• "The Blessing of the War": World War I as a Chance for Rehabilitation
• "Your Honor Is Not My Honor": Disenfranchisement and Rehabilitation as a
• Political Battleground from the War to the End of the Weimar Republic

• The institutional circuit of prisoner reentry
• Jumping through hoops
• They set you up to fail
• In search of respectability
• Becoming professionally poor
• Backsliding
• Conclusion : citizenship and social justice in the age of mass prisoner reentry.

• Mao II (1991)
• Underworld (1997)
• Chronology
• Note on the texts
• Notes.

This second volume in the Library of America DeLillo edition collects two extraordinary novels he published in the 1990s, the peak of his career. In the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning Mao II (1991), the celebrated novelist Bill Gray has withdrawn into seclusion, his everyday affairs managed by a pair of assistants. And yet within the protective solitude he has built for himself he still finds himself struggling--with pills and with a novel he can't manage to complete. A visit from a Swedish photographer who specializes in author portraits spurs him to shake off his world-weariness, and soon the reclusive writer is embarked on an unlikely journey to help broker the release of a poet held hostage by terrorists in Beirut. Mao II, writes the critic Sven Birkerts, is "DeLillo's strongest statement yet about the crisis of crises. Namely, that we are living in the last violet twilight of the individual, and that 'the future belongs to crowds.'" Underworld (1997), DeLillo's magnum opus and a book that ranks among the greatest of twentieth-century novels, is a sprawling, ambitious, and moving panorama of the postwar American experience. It begins with a tour de force re-imagination of one of the great moments in sports: the decisive pennant game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers at the Polo Grounds in 1951, culminating in the now legendary "shot heard 'round the world" home run by Bobby Thomson. In DeLillo's hands the excitement of the game is juxtaposed with something far more momentous, the announcement of the Soviets' first atomic test--a coincidence that initiates a kaleidoscopic saga that is woven across more than four decades, shuttling back and forth through time and mixing fictional characters with historical figures such as Lenny Bruce and J. Edgar Hoover. The novel is at once a profound meditation on our contemporary condition and a deeply personal book for its author, drawing poignantly on his memories of growing up in the Bronx. "All of DeLillo is in Underworld," writes Harold Bloom. "DeLillo's sense of America, in the second half of the twentieth century, is achieved perfectly." Here is the ultimate gift for DeLillo fans and perfect introduction for readers interested in discovering or rediscovering a great American writer.

"Ranita Atwater is wrapping up her four-year sentence for opioid possession at Oak Hills Correctional Center, near Boston. With three years of sobriety, she is determined to stay clean and regain custody of her two children from her aunts who have been raising them. My name is Ranita, and I'm an addict, she has said again and again at [Narcotics Anonymous] meetings. But who else is she? Who might she choose to become? She is gaining her freedom, but she is leaving behind the group of women who have helped to get her through. And she is losing her lover, Maxine, who has inspired her to imagine herself and the world differently. Drawing on Maxine's love, the solace of books, and the curiosity, respect, and wonder imparted by her people, Ranita is determined to confront the weight of the past and discover what might lie beyond mere survival. With her fierce and often funny voice, she reveals how rocky and winding the path to healing is for a Black woman. She must steer clear of the temptation of oblivion. She must weather the resentment and mistrust of her children. She must atone. And she must face her unhealed wounds and honor the body that has seldom felt like it belongs to her. Will she be able to draw on family, memory, faith, and nature to keep choosing life? Will she discover abundance in her pomegranate heart, alongside all the loss? With lyrical and masterful prose, Helen Elaine Lee paints a humane, unflinching, and hopeful por- trait of the devastating and interconnected effects of addiction, incarceration, racism, and misogyny... and of one woman's determination to own and tell her story." -- Book jacket

• Introduction
• Underdevelopment
• Purgatory
• Halfway
• Body
• Space
• Abolition

• Foreword / by Deion "Prime Time" Sanders
• Introduction: Everything must change
• The boy is the father of the man
• Hood credentials
• Deviant, delinquent, and dangerous
• The mouth of the beast
• How do you behave?
• Losing me
• Cops and crack houses
• Good girls
• The beast
• Crossroads
• Coming out of the cave
• In the belly of the beast
• The disease
• The cirlce [sic] of kings
• Getting out of the can
• God's plan
• Forging forgiveness
• Peace be still
• Each one, teach one
• Gang busters
• A new perspective
• The audacity of activism
• Vision regeneration
• Slander
• Free at last, free at last
• Urban specialist
• Unlikely collaborators

Having a criminal record can be a major barrier to employment. When companies implement programs and policies that support the hiring of justice-impacted talent, including the formerly incarcerated, both they and the affected individuals stand to benefit. The author describes some of the efforts underway by nonprofit organizations and major employers to tap into this underutilized talent pool and provide people with a second chance to thrive in today’s workforce.

"Lors du tournage d'un documentaire sur les camps du Goulag de la Kolyma, région de la Sibérie orientale que les Russes appellent "l'enfer blanc", l'auteur fait la rencontre inattendue d'un chat abandonné, transi de faim et de froid. Il décide de le sauver et le baptise Varlam, en hommage au grand écrivain Chalamov, rescapé des camps et auteur des Récits de la Kolyma. Avec lui, de Iakoutsk à Magadan en passant par la "route des ossements", il va parcourir la Sibérie, filmant les vestiges des camps, recueillant le témoignage des survivants, remontant le temps de la période stalinienne jusqu'à la fermeture du Goulag en 1956, trois ans après la mort du dictateur. Dans ce road-book polaire, Michaël Prazan nous propose une mosaïque de séquences mémorables, évoquant un des chapitres les plus sombres de l'Histoire de la Russie."--Page 4 of cover.

"עד הכניסה לכלא הייתי מורה, בחור בסדר בסך הכל, משלם מיסים, עושה מילואים. כל זה נגמר ברגע בו גרמתי לתאונת דרכים קטלנית. עם מספר האסיר החדש אני הופך לאזרח במדינת שב"ס: אקס טריטוריה עם חוקים, שפה ואנשים אחרים ממה שהתרגלתי להכיר, וכדאי מאוד שאתחיל..." אלקנה ברכיהו היה בדרכו הביתה לאחר עוד יום עבודה שגרתי. באמצע הדרך, הוא ביצע פנייה לא נכונה בצומת והתנגש במשאית. התוצאה היתה טרגית: אישה שחלפה במקום באותו הרגע נהרגה ואלקנה הורשע בגרימת מוות ברשלנות ונידון לשנת מאסר בפועל. כך חייו התהפכו מקצה לקצה וכך נולד סיפורו, שנכתב בכלא יום אחר יום בתוך מחברת צהובה קטנה שקיבל מאימו. "אל תמהר לעבור" הוא יומן אינטימי על מסע ארוך שמתרחש בגבולות הצרים של תא המאסר, שמתאר את הגעגועים לבית ולמשפחה, רגשות האשמה שלא מרפים, הפקפוק העצמי והפחד מהחברים לאגף. אך עם הזמן ההכחשה הופכת לקבלת הדין: אלקנה הופך מזר מוחלט לשותף פעיל בחיי הכלא הסוערים, מצליח למצוא שפה משותפת עם שאר האסירים, ולומד איך להפוך את החור השחור שנפער בחייו למקור של תקווה. איך שורדים את הלילה הראשון בתא? מה השאלה שאסור בשום אופן לשאול אסירים? כיצד אפשר להפוך את המקום האפל ביותר- להזדמנות לתיקון? איך חוגגים את ליל הסדר בין הסורגים? אלקנה ברכיהו, 32, נשוי לעדי ואב לשניים. לפני הכניסה לכלא עבד כמורה וכרכז הדרכה בתנועת "בני-עקיבא" וכיום מחנך בתיכון לנוער נושר בתל אביב. לאחר השחרור החל לספר את מה שעבר עליו מתוך אמונה ביכולת של שיח פנימי ותקשורת חברתית לייצר שינוי גם במקומות הקשים ביותר. זהו ספרו הראשון. "עד הכניסה לכלא הייתי מורה, בחור בסדר בסך הכל, משלם מיסים, עושה מילואים. כל זה נגמר ברגע בו גרמתי לתאונת דרכים קטלנית. עם מספר האסיר החדש אני הופך לאזרח במדינת שב"ס: אקס טריטוריה עם חוקים, שפה ואנשים אחרים ממה שהתרגלתי להכיר, וכדאי מאוד שאתחיל..." אלקנה ברכיהו היה בדרכו הביתה לאחר עוד יום עבודה שגרתי. באמצע הדרך, הוא ביצע פנייה לא נכונה בצומת והתנגש במשאית. התוצאה היתה טרגית: אישה שחלפה במקום באותו הרגע נהרגה ואלקנה הורשע בגרימת מוות ברשלנות ונידון לשנת מאסר בפועל. כך חייו התהפכו מקצה לקצה וכך נולד סיפורו, שנכתב בכלא יום אחר יום בתוך מחברת צהובה קטנה שקיבל מאימו. "אל תמהר לעבור" הוא יומן אינטימי על מסע ארוך שמתרחש בגבולות הצרים של תא המאסר, שמתאר את הגעגועים לבית ולמשפחה, רגשות האשמה שלא מרפים, הפקפוק העצמי והפחד מהחברים לאגף. אך עם הזמן ההכחשה הופכת לקבלת הדין: אלקנה הופך מזר מוחלט לשותף פעיל בחיי הכלא הסוערים, מצליח למצוא שפה משותפת עם שאר האסירים, ולומד איך להפוך את החור השחור שנפער בחייו למקור של תקווה. איך שורדים את הלילה הראשון בתא? מה השאלה שאסור בשום אופן לשאול אסירים? כיצד אפשר להפוך את המקום האפל ביותר- להזדמנות לתיקון? איך חוגגים את ליל הסדר בין הסורגים? אלקנה ברכיהו, 32, נשוי לעדי ואב לשניים. לפני הכניסה לכלא עבד כמורה וכרכז הדרכה בתנועת "בני-עקיבא" וכיום מחנך בתיכון לנוער נושר בתל אביב. לאחר השחרור החל לספר את מה שעבר עליו מתוך אמונה ביכולת של שיח פנימי ותקשורת חברתית לייצר שינוי גם במקומות הקשים ביותר. זהו ספרו הראשון.

• The first lie
• The Blues Brothers
• Darker than blue
• She trusted the police
• A decent life
• A high-stakes game
• We were not absolutely sure
• A chamber of horrors
• What in the fuck is going on?
• Larry, I can't do it
• Life's blood ran in the grass
• We will not give up
• In this life or another
• A closer look
• Without bitterness
• Time for me to speak
• A public face
• The golden egg
• Back in the swamp
• I worried people

"In June 1985, a young Black man in Winston-Salem, NC, named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor at the local paper. Many in the community believed him innocent and crusaded endlessly for his release even as a subsequent trial and appeals reinforced his sentence. Finally, in 2003, the tireless efforts of his attorney combined with an award-winning series of articles by Phoebe Zerwick in the Winston-Salem Journal led to the DNA evidence that exonerated Hunt. Three years later, the acclaimed documentary, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, made him known across the country and brought his story to audiences around the world. But Hunt's story was far from over. As Zerwick poignantly reveals, it is singularly significant in the annals of the miscarriage of justice. Part true crime drama, part chronicle of a remarkable life cut short by systemic prejudice, Beyond Innocence powerfully illuminates the sustained catastrophe faced by an innocent person in prison and the civil death nearly everyone who has been incarcerated experiences attempting to restart their lives. Freed after nineteen years behind bars, Darryl Hunt became a national advocate for justice and a beacon of hope for so many--until he could bear the burden no longer and took his own life. Fluidly crafted by a master journalist, Beyond Innocence makes an urgent moral call for an American reckoning with the legacies of racism in the criminal legal system and the human toll of the carceral state"-- Provided by publisher

After more than twenty years in prison, a trans woman newly released on parole spends a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend in Brooklyn trying to reconcile with the son she left behind and to reunite with a family reluctant to accept her true identity. Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she'd grown up with in Fort Greene, Brooklyn - before it gentrified. But not long after her conviction, she took the name Carlotta and began to live as a woman, an embrace of selfhood that prison authorities rejected, keeping Carlotta trapped in an all-male cell block, abused by both inmates and guards, and often placed in solitary. But in her fifth appearance before the parole board, Carlotta is at last granted conditional freedom and given a bus ticket back to a New York City that has changed as much in the intervening decades as she herself has changed to those who knew her before she was sent away. Can she reconcile with the son she left behind and reunite with a family reluctant to accept her as Carlotta, all while complying with near-impossible parole restrictions and doing everything in her power to stay out of jail? Written with the same mischievous verve and astonishing freshness in Delicious Foods, which dazzled critics and listeners alike, Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta sweeps the listener through seemingly every street of Brooklyn in a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend. The novel sings with brio and ambition, offering a fantastically entertaining story and a cast of unforgettable characters even as it challenges us to confront the glaring injustices of a prison system that continues to punish people even after they've been freed

After more than twenty years in prison, a trans woman newly released on parole spends a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend in Brooklyn trying to reconcile with the son she left behind and to reunite with a family reluctant to accept her true identity. Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she'd grown up with in Fort Greene, Brooklyn - before it gentrified. But not long after her conviction, she took the name Carlotta and began to live as a woman, an embrace of selfhood that prison authorities rejected, keeping Carlotta trapped in an all-male cell block, abused by both inmates and guards, and often placed in solitary. But in her fifth appearance before the parole board, Carlotta is at last granted conditional freedom and given a bus ticket back to a New York City that has changed as much in the intervening decades as she herself has changed to those who knew her before she was sent away. Can she reconcile with the son she left behind and reunite with a family reluctant to accept her as Carlotta, all while complying with near-impossible parole restrictions and doing everything in her power to stay out of jail? Written with the same mischievous verve and astonishing freshness in Delicious Foods, which dazzled critics and listeners alike, Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta sweeps the listener through seemingly every street of Brooklyn in a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend. The novel sings with brio and ambition, offering a fantastically entertaining story and a cast of unforgettable characters even as it challenges us to confront the glaring injustices of a prison system that continues to punish people even after they've been freed

"Set in the blighted industrial landscape of the Los Angeles basin, Dreamland Court is a love story. Johnny Dalton, just released from prison, returns home to find his wife Jackie, the mother of his two small children, passionately involved with one of his friends. Determind to do everything in his power to win her back, Johnny blunders his way through one criminal enterprise after another. When the cops pick him up for being the only adult present at a wild teenage party, he’s sent back to jail. The strange thing is, Jackie finds Johnny's antics exciting, even irresistible. Reminiscent of the pathos in Hubert Selby’s Last Exit to Brooklyn, and the comedy of John Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, Dale Herd focuses his astute gaze on lives that are ordinarily invisible, while turning the conventional love story on its head."-- Back cover

WINNER OF THE TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARD "An uncompromising, unsentimental, slyly humorous novel." IRISH TIMES "A haunting drama of a Taiwanese family's efforts to rise out of poverty." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Keith Chen, the desperately yearned for second son of a traditional Taiwanese family with five daughters, refuses to play the role his parochial parents would cast him in. Instead, he chooses to make a life for himself in cosmopolitan Berlin, where he finally finds acceptance as a young gay man. The novel is set about a decade later, on Ghost Festival, the Day of Deliverance. After Keith's release from a maximum security prison, he has nowhere to go but home. With his parents gone, his siblings married, mad, on the lam, or dead, there is nothing left for him there, so it seems. As he explores his uncanny home town, we learn what tore his family apart, and, more importantly, the truth behind the terrible crime Keith committed in Germany. Told in a myriad of voices-both living and dead-and moving through time with deceptive ease, Ghost Town is a mesmerizing story of family secrets, countryside superstitions, and the search for identity amid a clash of cultures.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

"In the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl--a loner, dreamer, lover of music and words--meets Tina, the new girl in town. Tina convinces Earl to drive her to see her mother in Austin, where Earl and Tina are quickly separated. Two days later, Earl is being questioned by the police about Tina's disappearance and the blood in the trunk of his car. But Earl can't remember what happened in Austin, and with little financial support from his working-class family, he is sentenced for a crime he did not commit. Forty years later, Earl is released into a world he can barely navigate. Settling in a small town on the Oregon coast, he attempts to establish a sense of freedom from both bars and razor wire and the emotional toll of incarceration. But just as Earl finds the rhythm he's always sought, his past returns to endanger the new life he's built"--Book jacket flap
"The story of Earl, a 17-year-old boy who goes to prison for a crime he didn't commit"-- Provided by publisher