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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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Transitional jobs after release from prison: effects on employment and recidivism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of two experimental evaluations of transitional jobs programs for recently released former prisoners: the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) and the Transitional Jobs Reentry Demonstration (TJRD).
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A Life Course Analysis of Homeless Shelter Use among the Formerly Incarcerated
TL;DR: This paper found that the formerly incarcerated are at an elevated risk of homelessness, however, studies disagree regarding how these individuals experience homelessness; quantitative research showed that the former prisoners experience homelessness differently from the rest of the population.
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Consequences of Partner Incarceration for Women's Employment
TL;DR: Results showed that, on average, women's hours of work were not significantly impacted by the incarceration of their partners, but there was a positive relationship between partner incarceration and employment among more advantaged groups of women (e.g., married women, white women).
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A Field Study of the Presumptively Biased: Is There Empirical Support for Excluding Convicted Felons from Jury Service?
TL;DR: This article found that a majority of convicted felons harbor a pro-defense/antiprosecution bias and, in this way, differ from eligible jurors generally, and that the strength and direction of convicted felon's group-level pretrial biases are similar to those of other groups of nonfelon jurors.
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Out-of-Control Criminal Justice: The Systems Improvement Solution for More Safety, Justice, Accountability, and Efficiency
TL;DR: The Out-of-Control Criminal Justice (OCJCJ) project as discussed by the authors identifies how systems problems plague our criminal justice systems and presents a comprehensive strategy for bringing these systems under control to reduce crime, to increase justice and accountability, and to do so at less cost.