Beyond Jobs: Building Financial Capability for Adults Returning to the Community after Prison

Grier, Annie; Bright, Vanessa

doi:10.4324/9781351165686-10

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“…Reentry services need to be sensitive to the burdens of financial debt facing those who have been recently released from jail or prison. In addition to vocational training and mental health treatment services, individuals also need resources to address and manage their finances, repair their credit, access bank accounts and access debt-related legal services (Clendenen and Fisher 2016; Grier and Bright 2019; Mielitz and Marcum 2020). Reform of child support policies should include automatic freezing of obligations during incarceration and integrating payment assistance into reentry programs including employment support (Haney 2018; Nagrecha, Katzenstein, and Davis 2015; Thoennes 2002).…”

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“Let Me Be Bill-free”: Consumer Debt in the Shadow of Incarceration

Harper

Bardelli

Barrenger

2020

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Low-income U.S. households are increasingly burdened by unaffordable debt, with profound long-term economic and health consequences. Households of color are disproportionately negatively affected. This article examines the nexus of this rising indebtedness and mass incarceration through the experiences of a particularly marginalized group, people with mental illness. Drawing on qualitative research with 31 individuals with mental illness and recent incarceration in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, we show how carceral institutions and predatory financial practices intersect to create complex entanglements for poor and vulnerable people. While a growing body of scholarship focuses on criminal justice fines and fees, we highlight other types of debt that add to the overall burden, describing how incarceration deepens people’s existing debts of poverty and adds new debts from in-prison costs and identity theft. After release, those debts complicate the search for housing, employment, and financial stability, leading to further debt, stressing social relationships and reproducing social and economic inequality. The experiences of people with mental illness illuminates structures of marginalization and disadvantage that affect many others involved with the criminal justice system.

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“Let Me Be Bill-free”: Consumer Debt in the Shadow of Incarceration

Harper

Bardelli

Barrenger

2020

Sociological Perspectives

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“…Lived experience and the experiences of many others both in the USA and Australia have shown that a large majority of people returning from incarceration attempt to turn their lives around once they have returned home (Naylor, 2011). The large majority accepts and owns their own mistakes and tries to return to meaningful employment, but have the stigma and ongoing existence of criminal record and actions on the internet and media holding them back and making others judge the type of person they are according to their past actions, not the person they actually are (Naylor, 2011;Grier and Bright, 2019;Ryan et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%