A searing expos of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked upIn The Shadow System award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears challenges and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system. In Florida a young father triesA searing expos of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked upIn The Shadow System award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears challenges and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system. In Florida a young father tries to maintain a relationship with his daughter despite a sentence of life without parole. In Kentucky where the opioid epidemic has led to the increased incarceration of women many of whom are white one mother fights for custody of her children. In Mississippi a wife steels herself for her husband's thirty-ninth year in prison and does her best to keep their sons close.Through these stories Harvey reveals a shadow system of laws and regulations enacted to dehumanize the incarcerated and profit off their families -- from mandatory sentencing laws to restrictions on prison visitation to astronomical charges for brief phone calls.The Shadow System is an eye-opening account of the way incarceration has impacted generations of American families; it delivers a galvanizing clarion call to fix this broken system.(less)
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