What to Do?Reforming Parole and Reentry Practices

Petersilia, Joan

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“…Amanda Geller, Irwin Garfinkel, and Bruce Western (2011) find that incarceration both substantially and statistically significantly reduces fathers’ financial contributions to their families, destabilizes family relationships, and hinders men’s postincarceration labor-market performance (Lynch and Sabol 2004; see Western 2006 for a detailed discussion). So too, the stigma associated with incarceration may persist after the period of incarceration (Petersilia 2003). For example, families of men with an incarceration history may face difficulties in finding housing because landlords may be reluctant to rent out if they find out that the fathers have a criminal record (Petersilia 2003).…”

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“…So too, the stigma associated with incarceration may persist after the period of incarceration (Petersilia 2003). For example, families of men with an incarceration history may face difficulties in finding housing because landlords may be reluctant to rent out if they find out that the fathers have a criminal record (Petersilia 2003). As a result families of incarcerated men may remain isolated from their communities even after the fathers are released.…”

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The Effect of Paternal Incarceration on Material Hardship

Schwartz-Soicher

Geller

Garfinkel

2011

Social Service Review

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High rates of incarceration among American men, coupled with a high prevalence of fatherhood among the incarcerated, have led to millions of children and families whose fathers are, or have been, in the nation’s jails and prisons. This study uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Survey to estimate the extent to which paternal incarceration increases family material hardship. Analyses from a series of longitudinal regression models suggest that material hardship is statistically significant and positively associated with paternal incarceration. These hardships are found to reflect not only a reduction in fathers’ income and financial contributions but also an increase in financial and other family strains. The findings underscore the challenges facing families with incarcerated fathers. They also emphasize the need for efforts by criminal justice agencies and social service providers to help mitigate the risks associated with paternal incarceration.

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The Effect of Paternal Incarceration on Material Hardship

Schwartz-Soicher

Geller

Garfinkel

2011

Social Service Review

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129

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“…Furthermore, the disruption in labor market participation due to imprisonment may result in further erosion of human capital that eventually leads formerly incarcerated people to encounter difficulties in reentering the labor market after prison (Petersilia 2003). Very low levels of human capital, as indicated by job experience and education, may also mean that there is not enough variation in human capital among formerly incarcerated people for human capital to be predictive of neighborhood attainment after prison.…”

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Trajectories of neighborhood attainment after prison

Lee

Harding

Morenoff

2017

Social Science Research

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A potentially important but understudied aspect of prisoner reentry is the neighborhood environments experienced by formerly incarcerated people. We know that many formerly incarcerated people return to very disadvantaged neighborhood environments and that returning to disadvantaged neighborhoods after prison increases the risk of recidivism and reduces employment. Yet very little is known about the social, economic, and institutional processes that sort formerly incarcerated people into different neighborhoods after release or their trajectories of neighborhood attainment over time. Motivated by a conceptualization of prisoner reentry and reintegration as a process that unfolds over time, we examine trajectories of neighborhood environments after release. Motivated by the literatures on neighborhood attainment, social capital, and the role of criminal justice institutions in structuring the lives of former prisoners, we examine sources of variation in neighborhood attainment. We use administrative data from the Michigan Department of Corrections on formerly incarcerated people paroled in 2003 and followed for two years after release. Descriptive results from a latent class trajectory model show that most white and black formerly incarcerated people experience flat trajectories, with little upward or downward residential mobility over time. Findings from multi-level growth curve models suggest that institutional factors are particularly important for the neighborhood attainment of whites, while human capital and social ties are particularly important for blacks. Among both blacks and whites, pre-prison and first post-prison neighborhood conditions exhibit a strong association with post-prison neighborhood attainment, although these associations are larger for blacks than whites.

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“…Indeed, one study demonstrates that prisoners often return to the community with substance abuse issues that have not be dealt with while incarcerated (Chamberlain, 2012). As such, limited access to health care resources may be a barrier to successful reentry (Petersilia, 2003; Travis, 2005). …”

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The influence of incarceration and Re-entry on the availability of health care organizations in Arkansas

2015

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BackgroundStudies show that ex-prisoners often experience more health problems than the general population; unfortunately, these issues follow them upon their release from prison. As such, it is possible re-entry rates signal the need for neighborhood-based health care organizations (HCOs). We ask: are incarceration and re-entry rates associated with the availability of HCOs?.MethodsMethodsUsing 2008 Central Business Pattern data, 2008 prison admissions and release data, and 2000 and 2010 census data, we test whether prison admission and release rates impact the availability of HCOs net of neighborhood characteristics in Arkansas using Logit-Poisson hurdle models with county fixed effects.ResultsWe find that the incarceration and re-entry rates – together known as coercive mobility -- are related to whether a neighborhood has one or more HCOs, but not to the number of HCOs in a neighborhood.ConclusionFuture public policies should aim to locate health care organizations in areas where there is significant churning of individuals in and out of prison.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40352-015-0016-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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What to Do?Reforming Parole and Reentry Practices

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The Effect of Paternal Incarceration on Material Hardship

The Effect of Paternal Incarceration on Material Hardship

Trajectories of neighborhood attainment after prison

The influence of incarceration and Re-entry on the availability of health care organizations in Arkansas

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