Book•
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.
Citations
More filters
01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the compliance with state policies and employer preferences about hiring ex-offenders and found that hiring procedures are counter to such an individualized decision process and to state law requiring these actions.
Abstract: The State of Massachusetts has more amenable polices toward the hiring of ex-offenders than most other US states. Boston also was among the first to ´ban the box’ asking about conviction on city and private city contractor applications. Whether or not such polices and practices have permeated into the private sector has yet to be investigated. Through the use of mail and telephone surveys, employer’s compliance with those state policies as well as employer preferences about hiring ex-offenders is explored. Results show Boston employers are not different from employers in other areas of the country. They voiced concerned about the liability of hiring ex-offenders, though they discuss needing to make case-by-case decisions. Findings show, however, that hiring procedures are counter to such an individualized decision process and to the state law requiring these actions, which are consistent with bureaucratic rationality wherein benefits do not outweigh costs and actual business processes do not allow for individualized assessments.
5 citations
TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between race and community corrections during the 1980s, filling a historical void in the documentation, statistical rigor, and understanding of disproportionate probation outcomes, concluding that racial and ethnic disparities in community corrections existed almost four decades ago and the crafting of policies that foster a fair community corrections system should look to the past as well as the present when tailoring and implementing community alternatives to incarceration.
Abstract: Black and Latinx persons are overrepresented in the population of people who are incarcerated, on probation and on parole in the United States. Empirical investigations on the breadth and depth of the disparate outcomes for incarcerated Black and Latinx persons remain limited, presenting historical gaps in the understanding of community corrections at different time periods. Taking the position that history repeats itself and that data on racial and ethnic inequalities from the past are as relevant as data in the present, this study examines the relationship between race and community corrections during the 1980s, filling a historical void in the documentation, statistical rigor, and understanding of disproportionate probation outcomes. A nationally representative sample of 12,368 people on probation in the United States during the late 1980s was used to examine Minority Threat Theory, yielding the findings that an individual’s race and ethnicity, as well as the community’s racial and ethnic composition were predictive factors of a probationer being rearrested for a felony charge. The findings suggest that racial and ethnic disparities in community corrections existed almost four decades ago and the crafting of policies that foster a fair community corrections system should look to the past as well as the present when tailoring and implementing community alternatives to incarceration.
5 citations
TL;DR: The Huikahi Restorative Circle as mentioned in this paper is a reentry planning group process that addresses individual incarcerated people's needs for achieving criminal desistence, using public health learning principles including applied learning experiences to increase selfefficacy and hopefulness, restorative justice, and solution-focused brief therapy language.
Abstract: The Huikahi Restorative Circle is a reentry planning group process that addresses individual incarcerated people’s needs for achieving criminal desistence. The Circles use public health learning principles including applied learning experiences to increase selfefficacy and hopefulness, restorative justice, and solution-focused brief therapy language, which promote positive attitudes and healing. A primary strength of the Circles is treating individuals as their own change agents rather than the passive recipients of treatment directed by others. The author concludes that reentry planning resources are better invested in models similar to Huikahi Circles, which include the participation and decision making of incarcerated people and their loved ones, rather than professionally driven case management efforts.
5 citations
01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: The USA has experienced a colossal growth in its carceral population, zooming from incarceration rates so moderate in the early 1970s that it was conceivable to anticipate the end of the prison.
Abstract: Over the last three decades, the USA has experienced a colossal growth in its carceral population, zooming from incarceration rates so moderate in the early 1970s that it was conceivable to anticipate the ‘end of the prison’ (Blumstein et al. in The Dynamics of a Homeostatic Punishment Process 67:317–344, 1977) to rates so high at present that the USA is the world leader in locking its residents behind bars (Institute for Criminal Policy Research in World Prison Brief, 2017).
5 citations
01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: This work examined whether formerly incarcerated people were linked to care successfully, remained in care, and were in good health 3 years after their date of release, and found only 27% had achieved viral suppression.
Abstract: In 2003, Michigan implemented a reentry service to assist HIV-infected people incarcerated in state prisons in linking to HIV medical care immediately upon their release. We examined whether formerly incarcerated people were linked to care successfully, remained in care, and were in good health 3 years after their date of release. In all, 190 people used the service over the 5 years following its inception. Only a minority of those who were alive and not reincarcerated at the time of the evaluation engaged consistently with medical care. Unsurprisingly given low rates of engagement in care, 3 years after their release only 27% had achieved viral suppression. Concerted efforts to support formerly incarcerated HIV-infected individuals’ engagement in care over the long term are urgently needed.
5 citations