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When Prisoners Come Home : Parole and Prisoner Reentry

ISBN: 9780195386127 | 0195386124

Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 4/21/2009

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

In 2003, well over half a million jailed Americans will leave prison and return to society. Largely uneducated, unskilled, often without family support, and with the stigma of a prison record hanging over them, many if not most will experience serious social and psychological problems afterrelease. Fewer than one in three prisoners receive substance abuse or mental health treatment while incarcerated, and each year fewer and fewer participate in the dwindling number of vocational or educational pre-release programs, leaving many all but unemplo... MOREyable. Not surprisingly, the greatmajority is rearrested, most within six months of their release. What happens when all those sent down the river come back up--and out? As long as there have been prisons, society has struggled with how best to help prisoners reintegrate once released. But the current situation is unprecedented. As a result of the quadrupling of the American prison population in the last quarter century, the number of returning offenders dwarfsanything in America's history. What happens when a large percentage of inner-city men, mostly Black and Hispanic, are regularly extracted, imprisoned, and then returned a few years later in worse shape and with dimmer prospects than when they committed the crime resulting in their imprisonment? Whattoll does this constant "churning" exact on a community? And what do these trends portend for public safety? A crisis looms, and the criminal justice and social welfare system is wholly unprepared to confront it. Drawing on dozens of interviews with inmates, former prisoners, and prison officials, Joan Petersilia convincingly shows us how the current system is failing, and failing badly. Unwilling merely to sound the alarm, Petersilia explores the harsh realities of prisoner reentry and offers specificsolutions to prepare inmates for release, reduce recidivism, and restore them to full citizenship, while never losing sight of the demands of public safety. As the number of ex-convicts in America continues to grow, their systemic marginalization threatens the very society their imprisonment was meant to protect. America spent the last decade debating who should go to prison and for how long. Now it's time to decide what to do when prisoners comehome.

As the number of convicts in American society continues to grow, how their marginalization affects us all will be an increasingly pressing political and practical challenge. A broad and empirically informed resource, this book explores the critical dimensions of prisoner reentry and offers policy and program solutions. A new afterword from the author brings the book up-to-date with recent policies, trends, and the latest evidence on what works and what doesn't in parole andprisoner reentry programs.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of jailed Americans leave prison and return to society. Largely uneducated, unskilled, often without family support, and with the stigma of a prison record hanging over them, many if not most will experience serious socia

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Preface
Introduction and Overview
Who's Coming Home? A Profile of Returning Prisoners
The Origins and Evolution of Modern Parole
The Changing Nature of Parole Supervision and Services
How We Help: Preparing Inmates for Release
How We Hinder: Legal and Practical Barriers to Reintegration
Revolving Door Justice: Inmate Release and Recidivism
The Victim's Role in Prisoner Reentry
What to Do? Reforming Parole and Reentry Practices
Conclusions: When Punitive Policies Backfire
Afterword
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Joan Petersilia is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. The author of numerous books and a former president of the American Society of Criminology, she is a consultant to the United States Department of Justice and to many state and local agencies.

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