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But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry
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Travis as mentioned in this paper proposes organizing the criminal justice system around five principles of reentry to encourage change and spur innovation, and argues that the impact of returning prisoners on families and communities has been largely overlooked.Abstract:
As our justice system has embarked upon one of our time's greatest social experiments?responding to crime by expanding prisons?we have forgotten the iron law of imprisonment: they all come back. In 2002, more than 630,000 individuals left federal and state prisons. Thirty years ago, only 150,000 did. In the intense political debate over America's punishment policies, the impact of these returning prisoners on families and communities has been largely overlooked. In But They All Come Back, Jeremy Travis continues his pioneering work on the new realities of punishment in America vis-a-vis public safety, families and children, work, housing, public health, civic identity, and community capacity. Travis proposes organizing the criminal justice system around five principles of reentry to encourage change and spur innovation.read more
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The Impact of Incarceration on the Employment Outcomes of Former Inmates: Policy Options for Fostering Self-Sufficiency and an Assessment of the Cost-Effectiveness of Current Corrections Policy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the employment effects of serving time and discuss several policy options designed to limit the adverse collateral consequences of corrections policy on poor minority communities, including the elimination of federal bans on the participation of certain convicted felons from participation in various public assistance programs, rationalization of federal, state, and local government employment bans that allows for greater consideration of the particulars of individual cases, and legislative guidance on how employers may and may not consider the criminal history record of an applicant, and for state programs that incentivize the expunging of criminal history records for former
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Recidivism and Relationships: Examining the Role of Relationships, Transitions, and Relationship Quality in Reincarceration
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore whether marriage, being in a relationship, and post-release marital and relationship transitions impact reincarceration, and find that relationship quality, not marriage or relationship transitions, is associated with a lower likelihood of re incarceration.
Untangling the Interconnected Relationships between Alcohol Use, Employment, and Offending
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Disproportionate Drug Imprisonment Perpetuates the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in African American Communities
Juarlyn L. Gaiter,Ann O'Leary +1 more
TL;DR: The U.S. inmate population increased by 700% between 1970 and 2005, mainly because correctional policies criminalize drug addiction, and states that have high numbers of drug arrests usually have higher incarceration rates and counties with burgeoning unemployment, persistent poverty and large percentages of African Americans have the highest incarceration rates.
Once a Criminal, Always a Criminal: How Do Individual Responses to Formal Labeling Affect Future Behavior? A Comprehensive Evaluation of Labeling Theory
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