But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry
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...On the other hand, evidence in the reentry literature documents the difficulties that former felons have in finding and maintaining stable employment, repairing broken family relationships, and finding acceptance in the community (Travis, 2005)....
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...…record makes finding work (Mallik-Kane & Visher, 2008; Pager, 2003) and housing (Bergseth, Jens, Opsal 191 Bergeron-Vigesaa, & McDonald, 2011; Travis, 2005) difficult; notably, the very things that having a criminal record limits access to are very often critical aspects of a successful…...
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...Research indicates that although some who leave prison are uncertain what they will be able to call home, most individuals initially depend on their families to provide them a place to lay their heads but wind up shuttling between “family, friends, shelters, and the streets” (Travis, 2005, p. 219)....
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...Email: Tara.Opsal@colostate.edu Opsal 189 a criminal record has tremendous impacts on the formerly incarcerated as do various policies and laws that institutionalize a variety of legal and cultural consequences of holding this discredited social identity (Travis, 2005)....
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