Lynne Haney: on writing PRISONS OF DEBT

"A book of immense importance about the criminalization of poverty. Throwing poor people into debtors' prisons for their inability to pay child support is unconscionable, but as Haney tells us in this timely, pressing book, all too common."-Stephen Bright, Yale Law School,​ and former Director, Southern Center for Human Rights
A profound portrait of the hidden injustices that trap fathers in a cycle of punishment and debt.
In the first study of its kind, sociologist Lynne Haney travels into state institutions across the country to document the experiences of the millions of fathers cycling through the criminal justice and child support systems. Prisons of Debt shows how these systems work together to create complex entanglements-rather than "piling up" in men's lives, these entanglements form feedback loops of disadvantage. The prison-child support pipeline flows in both directions, deepening parents' debt and criminal justice involvement.
Lynne Haney is Professor of Sociology at New York University and author of the award-winning books Offending Women and Inventing the Needy. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program.
Learn more at: www.ucpress.edu/book/97805202...

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I would like to support those who are incarcerated and need to start a new life