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The Expanding Prisoner Reentry Industry

Reentry agencies should be trying to work themselves out of a job if they want to call themselves successful. This article discusses the growth and effectiveness of the 'prisoner reentry industry' and argues that the growth of the prisoner reentry industry is testament to its lack of success.


Thompkins, D. (2010). The expanding prisoner reentry industry. Dialectical Anthropology, 34(4), 589–604. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-010-9219-1

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