Therapeutic correctional spaces, transcarceral interventions: post-release support structures and...
Evidence-based reentry practices are often ineffective and unhelpful for formerly incarcerated women. This article provides a thorough...
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- Apr 13, 2021
Back to Nothing: Prisoner Reentry and Neoliberal Neglect
The reentry industry, as an extension of the carceral state, is a well-functioning engine of structural and racialized inequity in U.S....
- Mar 12, 2021
“It’s Hard Out Here if You’re a Black Felon”: A Critical Examination of Black Male Reentry
Black men with criminal records experience intersectional oppression. Utilizing a critical ethnography lens and interviews with nine...
- Mar 12, 2021
Structural Inequality and Social Support for Women Prisoners Released to Rural Communities
Reentry programs will not be successful unless they also address institutional and structural inequities making it easier for women to...
- Mar 12, 2021
I Do What I’m Told, Sort of: Reformed Subjects, Unruly Citizens, and Parole
People under parole supervision are more inclined to 'comply' with parole requirements when they can do so on their own terms. Based on...
- Mar 12, 2021
“Me and the Law is Not Friends”: How Former Prisoners Make Sense of Reentry
Simply having all the right resources isn't enough to make a person want a different life. Indeed, decisions to participate in criminal...
- Mar 12, 2021
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...
- Mar 12, 2021
Prison Abolition in Practice: The LEAD Project, the Politics of Healing, and A New Way of Life
Providing opportunities for formerly incarcerated people to heal from their experiences through critical knowledge and thinking about...
- Mar 12, 2021
Social Capital Among Women Offenders: Examining the Distribution of Social Networks and Resources
The less education and income a formerly incarcerated woman has, the less social capital she is likely to have, which is defined here as...
- Mar 12, 2021
Rejection, Humiliation, and Parole: A Study of Parolees' Perspectives
Feelings of humiliation and rejection often impact a person's identity reconstruction while attempting to reintegrate into society after...
- Mar 12, 2021
The System Is Not Broken, It Is Intentional: The Prisoner Reentry Industry as Deliberate....
Reentry programs provide "the illusion of assistance" but in reality operate to extend the reach of the carceral state and maintain,...
- Mar 12, 2021
Making it on the Outside: Understanding Barriers to Women’s Post-Incarceration Reintegration
The demands on women to be considered 'successful' in reentry are often competing with and exacerbated by the gendered inequities women...
- Mar 12, 2021
Women Disrupting a Marginalized Identity: Subverting the Parolee Identity through Narrative
Women on parole often resist the stigma associated with their criminal records, and instead redefine their identities in a way that...
- Mar 12, 2021
Women on Parole: Understanding the Impact of Surveillance
The main purpose of parole is to monitor women rather than assist them with successfully reentering back into society. This article uses...
- Mar 12, 2021
It's Their World, So You've Just Got to Get through': Women's Experiences of Parole Governance
Parole is gendered and tailored to male 'risk factors', which often has a doubly negative impact on women's reentry experiences. Based on...
- Mar 12, 2021
Life Capacity Beyond Reentry: A Critical Examination of Racism and Prisoner Reentry Reform in.....
Reentry support should provide access and resources to higher education, including leadership and organizational skills, and should...
- Mar 12, 2021
Devolving the Carceral State: Race, Prisoner Reentry, and the Micro-Politics of Urban Poverty....
The carceral state is furthering its reach into poor, Black and Brown communities through community-based reentry programs, continuing a...
- Mar 12, 2021
“Free but Still Walking the Yard”: Prisonization and the Problems of Reentry
People returning to society after incarceration often experience a type of shock while they are forced to reorient themselves to a new...
- Mar 12, 2021
Being a Good Daughter and Sister: Families of Origin in the Reentry of African American Female....
Black women in reentry face unique challenges. Based on repeated in-depth interviews over 16 months with 43 women who have criminal...
- Mar 12, 2021
People, Places, and Things: How Female Ex-Prisoners Negotiate Their Neighborhood Context
Neighborhoods impact the reentry and desistance process, particularly for Black women. Based on multiple interviews with Black women...
- Mar 12, 2021
Pedagogy of Individual Choice and Female Inmate Reentry in the U.S. Southwest
Ignoring the social structures and inequities that impact the likelihood of 'success' when reentering society after incarceration is both...
- Mar 12, 2021
Desistance, Persistence, Resilience and Resistance: A Qualitative Exploration of how Black Fathers..
Black men with a criminal record work hard to fulfill their roles as fathers, despite the stigma associated with both their Blackness and...
- Mar 12, 2021
Reentry to What? Theorizing Prisoner Reentry in the Jobless Future
The broad sociological factors impacting people returning to society from incarceration have thus far been largely ignored in the reentry...
- Mar 12, 2021
Categorical Exclusions: How Racialized Gender Regulation Reproduces Reentry Hardship
Black trans women are often severely discriminated against in the reentry field, including by reentry service providers. This study...
- Mar 12, 2021
“Work Your Story”: Selective Voluntary Disclosure, Stigma Management, and Seeking Employment....
Cities in the U.S. and Canada should adopt 'Selective, Voluntary Disclosure' (SVD) practices, which treat sharing of criminal record...
- Mar 12, 2021
Women's Survival Post-imprisonment: Connecting Imprisonment with Pains Past and Present
Reentry and support programs should acknowledge and seek to remedy the interwoven connection between past traumatic experiences caused...
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