Higgins, Jason A.2024-03-072024-03-072024-039781685750367https://hdl.handle.net/10919/118296The United States has both the largest, most expensive, and most powerful military and the largest, most expensive, and most punitive carceral system in the history of the world. Since the American War in Vietnam, hundreds of thousands of veterans have been incarcerated after their military service. Identifying the previously unrecognized 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. Having conducted dozens of oral history interviews, Jason A. Higgins traces the lifelong effects of war, inequality, disability, and mental illness, and explores why hundreds of thousands of veterans, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, were caught up in the carceral system. This original study tells an intergenerational history of state-sanctioned violence, punishment, and inequality, but its pages also resonate with stories of survival and redemption, revealing future possibilities for reform and reparative justice.Locating Incarcerated Veterans in American History -- "Less Than" Veterans -- War, Drugs, and the War on Drugs -- Another War, Another Drug : Military-Carceral State in the Reagan Era -- Leave No Vet Behind : Memory of the Vietnam War and the Foundation of Veterans Treatment Court -- Generation 9/11 : Incarcerated Veterans of the Global War on Terrorism -- Another Signature Wound : Substance Use Disorder and the Opioid Epidemic -- "Justice For Vets" : A New Veterans' Movement -- . . . And Justice For All : Women and Families of Veterans Treatment Court -- No Peace, No Justice.xxiv, 267 pagesapplication/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalUB357 .H53 2024Veterans -- United States -- Social conditionsPrisoners -- United StatesVeteran reintegration -- United StatesVeterans -- Mental health -- United StatesCriminal justice, Administration of -- United StatesAlternatives to imprisonment -- United StatesMarginality, Social -- United StatesBook1374114229362.860973