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FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HIGH-RISERS comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system-through the lens of parole. Perfect for fans of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy"Correction ranks among the very best books on life inside and outside of prison I have ever read." -- Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted A Most Anticipated Book of 2023: Chicago Review of Books. The United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world's incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichés -- paying a debt to society; you do the crime, you do the time -- there is little sense collectively in America what constitutes retribution or atonement.
About the Author
Ben Austen has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, GQ, and Wired. He lives in Chicago.
