Identifying the previously unrecognised connections between American wars and mass incarceration,
Prisoners after War reaches across lines of race, class, and gender to record the untold history of incarcerated veterans over the past six decades.Prisoners after War is on the cutting edge. It will appeal to a wide array of readers, including scholars of carceral and military history, social scientists interested in the intersections of veterans’ service and reentry, and crucially, general audiences curious about the lived experiences of criminalization and incarceration." - Melanie D. Newport, author of
This is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise and Mass Incarceration Jason A. Higgins 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 Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History.