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Sharing the Burden of Repair: Reentry After Mass Incarceration describes a six-year listening project on reentry that took place at the crest of an unusual wave of bipartisan criminal justice reform in Georgia, one of our most punishing states. Its primary intended audience is common citizens, like us, concerned about the reality of mass incarceration but unsure how to engage. Its aim is to expand, individual story by individual story, our understanding of the importance of successful reentry after an age of mass incarceration and help us take on those difficult questions: Where and how do wefit in? What can wechange? We listened to over 200 people: formerly incarcerated men and women, families, defense lawyers, activists, employers, chaplains, juvenile courts and justice officials, diversion courts, prosecutors, judges, community supervision officers, commissioners of corrections and community corrections, and legislators involved with criminal justice reform. We heard stories people within our adversarial criminal justice system rarely share directly with one another, each with a wisdom to it that we all need. By bringing them together here, we hope that new stories--more complex, compassionate, inclusive ones--can come into being, stories that acknowledge the lasting harms of both mass incarceration and crime andour capacities for remorse and change as individuals and as a society.

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This is a wonderful book. Moving. Honest. Detailed. The stories grip me; they stay with me. I hope many students read this book. Teachers, too. What they learn will help them be better at the changes we so desperately need. Todd R.Clear, Rutgers Law School, author of Imprisoning Communities Most powerfully, the book asks a heretical question: if we recognized that everyone who has strayed returns home, how would we rethink our approach to crime and punishment? Jeremy Travis, author of But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry. A 'MUST READ, ' this book is not only relevant and appropriate to the common citizen, but to all impacted by incarceration. And every person and institution in America is impacted by incarceration! A.J. Sabree, former Director of Reentry Services Georgia Department of Corrections This powerful and timely book is the product of a remarkable process of sustained listening. These are the stories behind the numbers that make up mass incarceration and they are our best hope for redemption. Shadd Maruna, author of Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives A must read for people interested in corrections, the stories are raw and show both the passion of those in the system as well as the ongoing struggle to shift from a 'catch people doing wrong to promoting success' model. Brian Lovins, PhD President-Elect/American Probation and Parole Association This work provides a rare, real, and in-depth view of the corrections system from the views of the offender, administrator, and stakeholder. It reveals what is going well, what's not working, and what we as a system need to start doing. Michael W. Nail, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Community Supervision Sharing the Burden is both a challenge and a call to action for anyone concerned about the individual and social costs of incarceration, especially how to reshape the process to accommodate its ultimate goal: re-entry of the majority of those incarcerated back to their communities. OUR communities. Sarah W. Bartlett, writinginsideVT Sharing the Burden of Repair is an excellent tool to begin meaningful, insightful dialogue about the plight of public safety in our community, dialogue that should prompt positive intervention beyond conversation. Rev. Thurmond N. Tillman, Pastor, First African Baptist Church, Savannah

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HEATHER TOSTESON is the author of six books of fiction and poetry, most recently the novel The Philosophical Transactions of Maria van Leeuwenhoek, Antoni's Dochter. She is also the author of God Speaks My Language, Can You?, the first Wising Up Listening Project, an exploration of the spiritual journeys of people of different faith traditions. Her work in health communications focused on racism, social trust, and how belief systems develop and change. She has an MFA (UNC-Greensboro) and PhD in English and Creative Writing (Ohio University). CHARLES D. BROCKETT has a PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill and is a recipient of several Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities awards. A retired political science professor, he has published extensively on Central America, including two well received books, Political Movements and Violence in Central America and Land, Power, and Poverty: Agrarian Transformation and Political Conflict in Central America, as well as numerous social science journal articles and book chapters. With Heather Tosteson, he is co-founder of Universal Table and Wising Up Press and co-editor of the Wising Up Anthologies.

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