The Parole Room
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The Parole Room
- Written by: Ben Austen
- Narrated by: Ben Austen
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
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Will Johnnie Veal—convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970—be granted parole after 50 years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish?
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Amazing stories! Very well done.
- By Anonymous on 2025-01-26
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The Parole Room
- Narrated by: Ben Austen
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2024-09-26
- Language: English
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$17.02 or free with 30-day trial
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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- Written by: Ben Austen
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, America’s most...
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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2018-02-13
- Language: English
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$40.12 or free with 30-day trial
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The Last Days of Cabrini-Green
- Written by: Ben Austen, Harrison David Rivers
- Narrated by: Ben Austen, Patina Miller, Harry Lennix, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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In 1992, the deadliest year in Chicago’s history, seven-year-old Dantrell Davis was shot and killed in front of his elementary school inside the public housing complex Cabrini-Green.
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The Last Days of Cabrini-Green
- Narrated by: Ben Austen, Patina Miller, Harry Lennix, Corey Stoll
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-14
- Language: English
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$16.28 or free with 30-day trial
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Correction
- Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change
- Written by: Ben Austen
- Narrated by: Brett Barry
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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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 “Correction...
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Correction
- Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change
- Narrated by: Brett Barry
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2023-11-07
- Language: English
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$29.74 or free with 30-day trial
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