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But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry

12 Apr 2005-
TL;DR: 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.
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TL;DR: Results suggest most of the public supports expungement reform, but less than 40% support rights restoration generally, with approval levels dependent on specific type of restoration.
Abstract: Recent federal and state-level justice reforms have centered on “legal reintegration” (e.g., permitting expungement for a greater range of crimes and rights restoration). While scholarship has tapp...

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  • ...This perspective is in stark contrast to the “get tough” justice eras of the 1980s and 1990s, which resulted in not simply mass incarceration, but also an array of “invisible punishments” (Travis, 2005)....

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  • ...Indeed, what these findings do underscore is the need for examination of public attitudes concerning a range of “invisible punishments” (Travis, 2005)....

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01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: This article argued that in addition to offender recidivism rate, adequate attention should be given to other important considerations like academic, employment signaling, institutional function, and social values of prison-based education programs in any determination of the usefulness of the programs.
Abstract: Offender rehabilitation is one of the goals of the correctional system and a very controversial one that continues to divide policy makers, correctional practitioners, scholars and the general public. And since prison-based education especially at the postsecondary level is a very significant offender rehabilitative program, it is made the focus of this analysis. Offender recidivism rate is often used as the sole indictor of prison-based education program usefulness while ignoring other important considerations. This analysis, therefore, argues that in addition to offender recidivism rate, adequate attention should be given to other important considerations like academic, employment signaling, institutional function,and social values of prisonbased education programs in any determination of the usefulness of the programs.This paradigm shift from the conventional way the subject is often examined previously, is scholarly significant, in that, it provides broader and deeper insights and lessons that may be too important and too costly to ignore in 21st century corrections policy and administration.

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  • ...…reintegration of some individual inmates from the society of captives into the general society (e.g., Hipp et al., 2010; Bui and Morash, 2010; Bushway and Apel, 2012; Wang et al., 2010; Ward and Maruna, 2007; Cullen, 2007; Travis, 2009; Ubah and Robinson, 2003; Steven and Ward, 1997; Sykes, 1958)....

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  • ...The answers to both of these questions are clearly in the negative (Travis, 2009)....

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  • ...…one considers that about ninety-five percent of all offenders currently behind bars will eventually be released into the larger community where they will have to fend for themselves (Bushway and Apel, 2012; Piquero, 2012; Visher et al, 2011; Lattimore et al, 2010; Travis, 2009; Petersilia, 2003)....

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  • ...For example,Petersilia (2003:2) epitomizes this “iron law of imprisonment” (Travis, 2009) by asserting that: Inmates have always been released from prisons, and officials have long struggled with their reintegration....

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore factors associated with successful program completion and find that offenders who are older, Caucasian, and employed at time of arrest are more likely to complete the program and that minority participants and those with prior mental health treatment are less likely to finish the program.
Abstract: In line with reentry and life course research that has shown increases in desistance for individuals connected with employment, work release programming attempts to achieve desistance from crime by linking criminal offenders to the labor market while in the correctional system. Recent research has speculated that the completion of rigorous employment programming may serve as a signal to employers that criminal careers have ceased and the offenders are employable. Therefore, it is important to understand factors associated with successful program completion. This study utilizes a sample of jail-based work release participants to explore factors correlated with program completion. Consistent with prior research, we find that offenders who are older, Caucasian, and employed at time of arrest are more likely to complete the program and that minority participants and those with prior mental health treatment are less likely to complete the program.

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Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that scholars, social service providers, policy makers, and others who critically engage the topic of African American fatherhood, must attend to two concepts that highlight under-treated dimensions of that role: vulnerability and safe space.
Abstract: In this chapter, I argue that scholars, social service providers, policy makers, and others who critically engage the topic of African American fatherhood, must attend to two concepts that highlight under-treated dimensions of that role: vulnerability and safe space. Vulnerability, a product of anxiety, uncertainty, and unfamiliarity, is a condition affecting many socio-economically disadvantaged African American fathers. These men also function without access to safe space, or public and/or institutionalized space that would allow them the opportunity to better realize, express, and address their vulnerability as men, and as fathers in particular. The absence of such safe space is a consequence of the transformation of urban communities since the age of the so-called underclass. Hence, through the review of a case study and findings in other research, this chapter highlights how and why a critical focus on vulnerability in African American fatherhood and the utility of safe spaces for addressing it can advance the scholarly and policy agenda for this social role.

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