The Second Chance Club: Hardship and Hope After Prison Audiobook (Free)

A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden element of our justice system through the intertwining tales of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after jail with this illuminating and dramatic publication.

Prompted by a dead-end retail job and a vague desire to increase the amount of justice in his hometown, Jason Hardy became a parole officer in New Orleans at the worst type of possible moment. Louisiana’s incarceration prices were the highest in america and his about THE NEXT Chance Golf club: Hardship and Hope After Prison section’s caseload had just been increased to 220 “offenders” per parole official, whereas the national average is around 100. Almost immediately, he found that the biggest issue with our prison system is what we should perform—and don’t do—when people escape prison.

Deprived of social support and careers, these former convicts are often worse off than when they first inserted prison and Hardy dramatizes their dilemmas with empathy and grace. He’s provided unique usage of their lives and a growing identification of their struggles and assumes his job with the expectation that he can change people’s fates—but he quickly learns otherwise. The very best Hardy and his colleagues can do can be watch out for impending catastrophe and help tidy up the clutter left out. But he finds that a few of his fees can muster the miraculous power to save themselves. By following these heroes, he both stokes our hope and fuels our outrage by showing us how most offenders, also those with the very best intentions, finish up back in prison—or dead—as the program systematically fails them. Our concentrate should be, he argues, to provide offenders the various tools they need to re-enter society which is not only humane but also vastly cheaper for taxpayers.

As immersive and dramatic as Evicted and as revelatory as THE BRAND NEW Jim Crow, THE NEXT Chance Club displays us how exactly to solve the cruelest complications prisons create for offenders and society most importantly.