“…The realities of mass incarceration directly impact reentry experiences for people returning to rural areas of the United States, where they face considerable reentry challenges including limited housing, employment, and transportation (Bowman & Ely, 2020; Norberg et al, 2021), lack of affordable and reliable childcare (Cabeldue et al, 2018), restricted social privacy that heightens public awareness and stigmatization of their crimes (Huebner et al, 2019), and limited substance use and mental health treatment services (Webster et al, 2015). The United States incarcerates almost 1.8 million people in prisons and jails, and every year more than 600,000 people are released from prison and nine million from jail (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2021).…”