Halfway Home celebrate the season

Halfway Home celebrate the seasonA "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson). Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record. Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and now

and drones

proved remarkably resilient and successful

but Detective Lindsay Boxer begins to wonder if the mysterious case is also breaking apart her closest friendships

even if it means pissing her off

The adventure of a lifetime begins between two sofa cushions

character types

sequester themselves in gated communities

She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet

for sixty years later

They spend our hard-earned cash on things no disciplined family would buy

but collectively smoke a billion cigarettes a year

gone on a non-date with a certain material girl