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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: This qualitative study elicited HIV prevention-related information, motivation and behavioral skills (IMB) needs of 30 incarcerated HIV+ men and women awaiting release from state prison.
Abstract: Greater understanding of barriers to risk reduction among incarcerated HIV+ persons reentering the community is needed to inform culturally tailored interventions. This qualitative study elicited HIV prevention-related information, motivation and behavioral skills (IMB) needs of 30 incarcerated HIV+ men and women awaiting release from state prison. Unmet information needs included risk questions about viral loads, positive sexual partners, and transmission through casual contact. Social motivational barriers to risk reduction included partner perceptions that prison release increases sexual desirability, partners’ negative condom attitudes, and HIV disclosure-related fears of rejection. Personal motivational barriers included depression and strong desires for sex or substance use upon release. Behavioral skills needs included initiating safer behaviors with partners with whom condoms had not been used prior to incarceration, disclosing HIV status, and acquiring clean needles or condoms upon release. Stigma and privacy concerns were prominent prison context barriers to delivering HIV prevention services during incarceration.
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...compliance with parole officers, staying on life-saving antiretroviral medications without the health care provided through the prison system, and negotiating the dynamics of parenting and intimate relationships after the separation of prison time [43]....
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...The process of community re-entry is challenging for all incarcerated people [43]....
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TL;DR: This paper examined the ways in which job seekers with criminal records navigate the legal barriers to acquiring "good" work and found that job seekers' often extralegal strategies of law abidance blur the line between compliance with and defiance of the law, and that they find themselves in a legal double bind where they are simultaneously compelled to obey the law (by finding "legit" work) but also legally barred from doing so.
Abstract: Employment has been cited as one of the most effective protections against recidivism for formerly incarcerated people; however, job seekers with criminal records face barriers to employment after prison. They find themselves in a legal double bind where they are simultaneously compelled to obey the law (by finding “legit” work) but also legally barred from doing so. To navigate this conflictual legal positioning, job seekers with felony records develop strategies of working around the law to find employment. Through thirty qualitative interviews with people with felony records, I examine this alternative form of legal consciousness and detail the ways in which individuals navigate the legal barriers to acquiring “good” work. Ultimately, job seekers’ often extralegal strategies of law abidance blur the line between compliance with and defiance of the law.
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...…a result of their time in jail or prison because of substantial gaps in their work history, atrophied job skills, and deteriorating social and professional networks (Mukamal and Samuels 2002; Western 2002; Petersilia 2003; Visher and Travis 2003; Travis 2005; Sabol 2007; Wakefield and Uggen 2010)....
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the profoundly different policies on providing public access to individual criminal history information in Spain and the USA, illuminating the cultural and legal values behind each country's policies and the tensions both countries encounter in attempting to reconcile these policies with other socio-political values and goals.
Abstract: A criminal conviction, if widely known, constitutes a life-long stigma that limits the convicted person’s employment and other opportunities. European countries, including Spain, recognizing an individual right of informational privacy and a societal interest in limiting recidivism, sharply restrict the dissemination of individual criminal history information. By contrast, the USA, in accordance with its emphasis on open court proceedings, free speech and the individual’s right of self protection, allows (and even promotes) extensive dissemination of individual criminal history information. This article compares the profoundly different policies on providing public access to individual criminal history information in Spain and the USA, illuminating the cultural and legal values behind each country’s policies and the tensions both countries encounter in attempting to reconcile these policies with other socio-political values and goals.
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...(Petersilia, 2003; Travis, 2005; Love, 2006), most Americans would likely find it difficult to conceive of guilty verdicts that did not involve public condemnation....
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...…ex-offenders become productive citizens (Heumann, Pinaire and Thomas, 2005) and the existence of efforts to reintegrate offenders (Petersilia, 2003; Travis, 2005; Love, 2006), most Americans would likely find it difficult to conceive of guilty verdicts that did not involve public condemnation....
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TL;DR: Community health care providers can be reassured that initiating buprenorphine/naloxone in opioid dependent individuals with a history of incarceration will have similar outcomes as those without this history.
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Behaviors associated with opioid dependence often involve criminal activity, which can lead to incarceration. The impact of a history of incarceration on outcomes in primary care office-based buprenorphine/naloxone is not known.
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