Winner of the 2017 American e-book Award



Flores Forbes, a former chief within the Black Panther occasion, has been unfastened from criminal for twenty-five years. regrettably that makes him a part of a gaggle of black males with out constituency who're all yet invisible in society. that's, the “invisible” team of black males in the USA who've served their time and never long gone again to prison.

Today the recidivism expense is round 65%. virtually by no means pointed out within the media or scholarly recognition is the plight of the 35% who don’t return, specially black males. some of them are hiding in Ivy League colleges’ criminal schooling programs—they don’t are looking to be known—but so much of them are recruited by way of the single billion greenback reentry worker courses that permit the united states to learn from their existence and hard work. while, African american citizens encompass in basic terms 12% of the inhabitants within the US, black men are incarcerated at a lot better premiums. the possibilities of those previously convicted males to prevail after prison—to matriculate as top individuals of society—are more and more slender. The doorways are closed to them.

Invisible Men is a e-book that might crack the code at the stigma of incarceration. while Flores Forbes used to be published from legal, he made a plan to re-invent himself yet came upon it most unlikely. His involvement in a plan to kill a witness who was once attesting opposed to Huey P. Newton, the founding father of the Black Panther get together, had resulted in his incarceration. whereas in criminal he earned a faculty measure utilizing a Pell supply, with wish this may get him on course and an opportunity at a typical lifestyles. He was once published yet that’s the place his tale and so much invisible men’s tales begin.

This e-book will weave Flores’ wisdom, knowledge, and adventure with incarceration, sentencing reform, judicial inequity, hiding and re-entry into society, and the problem of accelerating struggles and inequality for previously incarcerated males right into a number of poignant essays that at last provide invisible males a voice and face in society.