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The Waiting Room

Southside collection

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The Waiting Room

By: Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
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About this listen

It’s easy to get lost in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, the size of seventy-two football fields. For many released into the harsh elements beyond the walls, it can be impossible to find their way home.

This haunting and powerful narrative reveals the intentionally disorienting tactics of the system and how the punishments meted out to prisoners, their families, and even innocent victims extend beyond the cages. Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, the award-winning author of Crook Country, exposes the moral, spiritual, legal, and psychological wasteland - inside and out - of the nation’s largest jail.

Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve’s The Waiting Room is part of Southside, a collection of five true stories about racism and reform, crime and corruption, justice and injustice in Chicago - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning team at The Marshall Project. Each story can be listened to in a single sitting.

©2018 Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved
Racism & Discrimination Social Sciences Sociology Urban Violence in Society Discrimination Feel-Good Chicago

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