The story of a man who makes a mid-life shift from the parish ministry to the field of community-based corrections.

Take a ride with Teka, a rookie correctional officer as she becomes entangled in a web that she can't claw her way out of. She had made a vow to serve and protect. But it seems like she is the only one getting served on a platter. Torn between two inmates, who were friends, what will happen next? How deep is she willing to sink to be loved?

"From the critically acclaimed author of High-risers comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system-through the lens of parole. Perfect for fans of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy The United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world's incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichés-paying a debt to society; you do the crime, you do the time-there...

Australians have an historic hatred of police and of authority - but for black Australians it is a brutal reality. Some Australians call it a secret war. Others see it as evidence of an on-going penal mentality. But despite the attempt at cultural genocide, Aboriginal juveniles remain defiant and resilient, with a clever humour that gets them into even more trouble with police. They have to contend with over-policing and police harassment, and a criminal...