{"product_id":"prisoners-after-war-veterans-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration-paperback","title":"Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJason A. Higgins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 Oral History Association Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of Virginia Tech's Albert Lee Sturm Award for Faculty Excellence \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2026 Veterans Studies Association Distinguished Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe United States has both the largest, most expensive, and most powerful military and the largest, most expensive, and most punitive carceral system in the history of the world. Since the American War in Vietnam, hundreds of thousands of veterans have been incarcerated after their military service.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdentifying the previously unrecognized connections between American wars and mass incarceration, \u003ci\u003ePrisoners after War\u003c\/i\u003e reaches across lines of race, class, and gender to record the untold history of incarcerated veterans over the past six decades. Having conducted dozens of oral history interviews, Jason A. Higgins traces the lifelong effects of war, inequality, disability, and mental illness, and explores why hundreds of thousands of veterans, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, were caught up in the carceral system. This original study tells an intergenerational history of state-sanctioned violence, punishment, and inequality, but its pages also resonate with stories of survival and redemption, revealing future possibilities for reform and reparative justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJASON A. HIGGINS\u003c\/b\u003e is the digital scholarship coordinator for Virginia Tech Publishing and an assistant professor jointly affiliated with Virginia Tech University Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. He is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eService Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8.9 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53557352628531,"sku":"9781625347534","price":52.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/prisoners-after-war-veterans-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}