March 16, 2021 Paul Butler THE WASHINGTON POST – I grew up in Chicago raised by an activist mother who force-fed her kids race pride, so of course I knew that the city’s first nonnative settler was a Black man, the Haitian fur trapper Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. What I didn’t know was that du Sable was also the first Black man in Chicago to get locked up. I learned that from Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, Reuben Jonathan Miller’s trenchant guide to the legal and social cruelties piled on Americans who have felony convictions. This group numbers nearly 20 million people, including one in three African American men.