Author Event with Jason Higgins and His Book "Prisoners After War"
Venue: Blacksburg Books, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Saturday, May 2, 2026
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Blacksburg Books presents Author Event with Jason Higgins and his book "Prisoners After War" on Saturday, May 2, 2026.
Author Jason Higgins will be here to discuss his award-winning book, "Prisoners After War". The 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.
Admission is free.
Blacksburg Books is located at 401 South Main Street, Suite 106 in Blacksburg, VA.
For more information, visit: https://www.blacksburgbooks.com/events/o7fvj9go8o1v3mfcm87q3paefk4jmo or https://www.facebook.com/Blacksburg.Books or https://www.facebook.com/events/2505270936597065/ or https://www.instagram.com/blacksburg_books/ or call 540-315-9650.
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