Unveiling Truths: Can Parole and Prison Really Transform Lives?
A Chicago-based journalist, author Ben Austen, incorporates stunning statistics and thoughtful analysis to tell the story of America’s long, sordid infatuation with incarceration. To do so, Austen centers the Illinois criminal legal system, though examples drawn from other states (and countries) are peppered throughout the book. Austen is well-versed in many of the ingredients that feed the Illinois carceral system (and those elsewhere): economic inequality, racism, and politics prone to corruption. His prior book, High Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Harper; 2019), is an oft-cited source on Chicago’s iconic public housing that explores many of the same themes.
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