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When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry

01 Jan 2003-
TL;DR: In this paper, a profile of returning prisoners is presented, along with a discussion of the changing nature of Parole Supervision and Services, and the role of the victim's role in prisoner reentry.
Abstract: Preface 1. Introduction and Overview 2. Who's Coming Home? A Profile of Returning Prisoners 3. The Origins and Evolution of Modern Parole 4. The Changing Nature of Parole Supervision and Services 5. How We Help: Preparing Inmates for Release 6. How We Hinder: Legal and Practical Barriers to Reintegration 7. Revolving Door Justice: Inmate Release and Recidivism 8. The Victim's Role in Prisoner Reentry 9. What to Do? Reforming Parole and Reentry Practices 10. Conclusions: When Punitive Policies Backfire Afterword
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TL;DR: The Parenting Sentencing Alternative (PS Alternative) as mentioned in this paper is a substitute to total confinement for parents of minor children, which is designed to strengthen family bonds and improve parenting skills to encourage successful reintegration.
Abstract: The Washington State Legislature created the Parenting Sentencing Alternative in 2010, authorizing a substitute to total confinement for parents of minor children. The Alternative is designed to strengthen family bonds and improve parenting skills to encourage successful reintegration. An overview of the Alternative’s history, design, and implementation is presented, followed by preliminary results from an impact evaluation. A case study of a successful participant is presented, and implications for the findings are discussed.

7 citations


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  • ...Reentry is challenging for offenders (Durose et al., 2014; Petersilia, 2003) and their families (Grieb et al., 2014)....

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  • ...Reentry is challenging for offenders (Durose et al., 2014; Petersilia, 2003) and their families (Grieb et al....

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  • ...“Reentry,” or when an offender returns to his or her home after a period of incarceration, is deemed a critical time in interrupting an offender’s lifetime trajectory of offending (Petersilia, 2003)....

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  • ...Further, although 3 years of outcomes are considered standard to determine whether a program is reducing recidivism (Durose et al., 2014; Petersilia, 2003), this analysis, completed with available data in 2013, included only 2 years of outcomes....

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TL;DR: The results elucidate that clinicians and fatherhood programs may need to attend to the history of traumatic experiences, as well as other contextual factors, of fathers and identify how, through trauma-focused interventions, to positively affect them and their children.
Abstract: This study investigates how unemployment, traumatic sexual experiences, substance use, intimate partner violence, and parental involvement collectively contribute to involvement with child protective system (CPS) and court-restricted access to children among low-income, ethnically diverse fathers. Participants were 164 fathers involved in a statewide fatherhood program. The majority of the fathers in the program were unemployed (76%) and ethnic minorities (66%). Logistic regression revealed that traumatic sexual experiences and number of children were significant predictors of CPS involvement, whereas employment and traumatic sexual experience were associated with court-restricted access to their children. The results elucidate that clinicians and fatherhood programs may need to attend to the history of traumatic experiences, as well as other contextual factors, of fathers and identify how, through trauma-focused interventions, to positively affect them and their children.

7 citations


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  • ...Petersilia (2003) noted that individuals who have been successfully reintegrated back into their family have lower recidivism rates compared to the individuals who are disconnected from their families....

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  • ...Petersilia (2003) reported the men with criminal histories often have unmet mental and physical health treatment and job placement (resource) needs when they reenter the community....

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01 Mar 2015

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  • ...Others argue that the availability of treatment and rehabilitative programmes in prison can provide some with the opportunity and support to reduce their reoffending (e.g. Andrews, Bonta & Wormith, 2011; Cullen, 2013; Mazkenie, 2000; Petersilia, 2003)....

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Book ChapterDOI
01 Jul 2020
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a rich and multileveled collec� on of twenty-eight chapters that use varied lenses to examine the discourses that shape people's lives.
Abstract: This book is a rich and mul� faceted collec� on of twenty-eight chapters that use varied lenses to examine the discourses that shape people’s lives. The contributors are themselves from many backgrounds – diff erent academic disciplines within the humani� es and social sciences, diverse professional prac� ces and a range of countries and cultures. They represent a broad spectrum of age, status and outlook, and variously apply their research methods – but share a common interest in people, their lives, thoughts and ac� ons. Gathering such eclec� c experiences as those of student-teachers in Kenya, a released prisoner in Denmark, academics in Colombia, a group of migrants learning English, and gambling addic� on support-workers in Italy, alongside more mainstream educa� onal themes, the book presents a fascina� ng array of insights.

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  • ...Petersilia’s belief in 2003 that: ‘How we plan for inmates’ transition to free living — including how they spend their time during confinement, the process by which they are released, and how they are supervised after release  —  is critical to public safety’ (Petersilia, 2003, p.  3), still holds....

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  • ...A Danish Prisoner Narrative During (Re-)Entry to Society need incentives to change, which necessitates ‘a supervised transition plan’ (Petersilia, 2003, p. 75), although the different prison experiences will determine the specific resources ‘necessary for successful re-entry’ (Anonymous &…...

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  • ...W e know from research that the process of re-entry is often difficult (Keene, Smoyer & Blankenship, 2018; Maruna, 2000; Olsen, 2017; Petersilia, 2003; Riggs & Cook, 2015; Seigafo, 2017) and for different reasons....

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