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

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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.

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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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...According to Travis (2005),...
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...Between two thirds and three quarters of all prisoners struggle with substance-abuse problems (American Public Health Association, 2010; Petersilia, 2003; Reentry Policy Council, 2006; Travis, 2005), and just more than half (i....
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...Between two thirds and three quarters of all prisoners struggle with substance-abuse problems (American Public Health Association, 2010; Petersilia, 2003; Reentry Policy Council, 2006; Travis, 2005), and just more than half (i.e., 55...
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Young People, Shadow Carceral Innovations, and the Reproduction of Inequality

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Kaitlyn J. Selman¹, Randy Myers², Tim Goddard³•Institutions (3)

Framingham State University¹, University of Washington², Florida International University³

01 Dec 2019-Critical Criminology

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how several "shadow carceral innovations" in the school and community mark some young people as "dangerous", "high risk", or "unsafe" and show how these experiences are measured and judged across a variety of institutions.

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Abstract: The rate of detention for juveniles in the United States (US) is half what it was 20 years ago, and arrest rates have declined as well. Scholars, however, have illuminated more subtle processes of criminalization, such as through school disciplinary practices and civil penalties for low-level infractions in the community. Recognizing the presence and importance of such “shadow measures” helps us to understand how the carceral state penetrates deeper into the lives of (young) people, even in the midst of emerging reforms that would seem to dull the sharpest edges of the US criminal justice system. In this article, we delineate some of the ways that “shadow measures” help to sustain and legitimate deep economic, social, and justice system inequalities in the present-day US. Specifically, we describe how several “shadow carceral innovations” in the school and community mark some young people as “dangerous,” “high-risk,” or “unsafe,” and show how these experiences are measured and judged across a variety of institutions. Ultimately, we argue that these “shadow measures” structure the day-to-day lives of youth outside the workforce and the cellblock, functioning as a key mechanism for maintaining inequality in the second decade of this century.

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TL;DR: In this article, a pre-release behavioral health services appear to improve treatment access for substance use disorder (SUD) patients after prison, however, a dearth of evidence suggests that these services may be ineffective.

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Abstract: Accessing substance use disorder (SUD) treatment after prison is a challenging process for released inmates. Pre-release behavioral health services appear to improve treatment access. However, a de...

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...…are likely to experience a combination of social and personal issues such as financial difficulties, employment, education and housing access, family and relationship issues, health concerns (both mental and physical), and stigma due to their ex-offender status (Petersilia, 2003; Travis, 2005)....
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...…manifest in legislation or regulations that exclude former prisoners from key resources such as certain welfare assistance programs, Section 8 housing, some careers (due to licensing rules around criminal records), and access to educational grants for low-income individuals (Travis, 2005)....
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...Travis (2005) argues that prisoners face “invisible punishments” after reentry....
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...The difficulties inherent in reentry can be mitigated by how criminal justice agencies handle this transition phase for people with SUDs (Petersilia, 2003; Prendergast, 2009; Taxman et al., 2003; Travis, 2005)....
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