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Calvin John Smiley, "Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition" (U California Press, 2023)

Feb 7, 2024
Calvin John Smiley, Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York, discusses the challenges faced by formerly incarcerated individuals in reentry. Topics include the cyclical pattern of reentry, earning trust in the re-entry center, critical reentry studies, underdevelopment in Newark, 'purgatory citizenship,' and rethinking justice in the criminal system.
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