Getting the Runaround contraception and the two baddest detectives

and the two baddest detectives ever to wear a badge in Harlem

reinforcing the learning

'A revelatory novel' Sunday Times

The old certainties of the post-years have gone

is the pressure of being the last hope of the innocent too much to bear when surviving past sundown seems impossible

Getting the Runaround contraception and the two baddest detectivesGetting the Runaround takes readers into the bureaucratic spaces of prisoner reentry, examining how returning citizens navigate the "institutional circuit" of parole offices, public assistance programs, rehabilitation facilities, shelters, and family courts. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork and forty five in depth interviews with formerly incarcerated men returning to New York City, John M. Halushka argues that the very institutions