Full Description
This groundbreaking edited volume evaluates prisoner reentry using a critical approach to demonstrate how the many issues surrounding reentry do not merely intersect but are in fact reinforcing and interdependent. The number of former incarcerated persons with a felony conviction living in the United States has grown significantly in the last decade, reaching into the millions. When men and women are released from prison, their journey encompasses a range of challenges that are unique to each individual, including physical and mental illnesses, substance abuse, gender identity, complicated family dynamics, the denial of rights, and the inability to voice their experiences about returning home.
Although scholars focus on the obstacles former prisoners encounter and how to reduce recidivism rates, the main challenge of prisoner reentry is how multiple interdependent issues overlap in complex ways. By examining prisoner reentry from various critical perspectives, this volume depicts how the carceral continuum, from incarceration to reentry, negatively impacts individuals, families, and communities; how the criminal justice system extends different forms of social control that break social networks; and how the shifting nature of prisoner reentry has created new and complicated obstacles to those affected by the criminal justice system. This volume explores these realities with respect to a range of social, community, political, and policy issues that former incarcerated persons must navigate to successfully reenter society.
A springboard for future critical research and policy discussions, this book will be of interest to U.S. and international researchers and practitioners interested in the topic of prisoner reentry, as well as graduate and upper-level undergraduate students concerned with contemporary issues in corrections, community-based corrections, critical issues in criminal justice, criminal justice policies, and reentry.
Contents
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction: Critical Reentry in the 21st Century
KEESHA M. MIDDLEMASS AND CALVINJOHN SMILEY
SECTION I
Institutions, Community, and Reentry
1 Halfway Home: The Thin Line Between Abstinence and the Drug Crisis
LIAM MARTIN
2 Triaging Rehabilitation: The Retreat of State-Funded Prison Programming
ALLISON GORGA
3 The State's Accomplices? Organizations and the Penal State
NICOLE KAUFMAN
4 Idaho: A Case Study in Rural Reentry
DEIRDRE CAPUTO-LEVINE
5 Life Courses of Sex and Violent Offenders After Prison Release: The Interaction Between Individual- and Community-Related Factors
GUNDA WOESSNER, KIRA-SOPHIE GAUDER, AND DAVID CZUDNOCHOWSKI
SECTION II
Health, Embodiment, and Reentry
6 Mothers Returning Home: A Critical Intersectional Approach to Reentry
REBECCA REVIERE, VERNETTA D. YOUNG, AND AKIV DAWSON
7 Release From Long-Term Restrictive Housing
LINDA CARSON
8 Resilient Roads and the Non-Prison Model for Women
L. SUSAN WILLIAMS, EDWARD L. W. GREEN, AND KATRINA M. LEWIS
9 Alcohol Use Disorder: Programs and Treatment for Offenders Reentering the Community
SARA BUCK DOUDE AND JESSICA J. SPARKS
10 Carceral Calisthenics: (Body) Building a Resilient Self and Transformative Reentry Movement
ALBERT DE LA TIERRA
SECTION III
Gender, Criminality, and Reentry
11 Black Women Excluded From Protection and Criminalized for Their Existence
KEESHA M. MIDDLEMASS
12 The Gendered Challenges of Prisoner Reentry
HALEY ZETTLER
13 An Intersectional Criminology Analysis of Black Women's Collective Resistance
NISHAUN T. BATTLE AND JASON M. WILLIAMS
14 Gender Differences in Programmatic Needs for Juveniles
LAURIN PARKER AND KYLIE PARROTTA
15 Prison Is a Place to Teach Us the Things We've Never Learned in Life
BREEA WILLINGHAM
SECTION IV
Access, Rights, and Reentry
16 ". . . Except Sex Offenders": Registering Sexual Harm in the Age of #MeToo
DAVID BOOTH
17 Reentry in the Inland Empire: The Prison to College Pipeline With Project Rebound
ANNIKA YVETTE ANDERSON, PAUL ANDREW JONES, AND CAROLYN ANNE MCALLISTER
18 The Politics of Restoring Voting Rights After Incarceration
TANEISHA N. MEANS AND ALEXANDRA HATCH
19 Restoration of Voting Rights: Returning Citizensand the Florida Electorate
KENESHIA GRANT
20 Perpetual Punishment: One Man's Journey Post-Incarceration
TOMAS R. MONTALVO AND JENNIFER MARIE ORTIZ
SECTION V
Voices, Agency, and Reentry
21 Thoughts, Concerns, and the Reality of Incarcerated Women
CALVINJOHN SMILEY AND KEESHA M. MIDDLEMASS
22 Reflections on Reentry: Voices From the ID13 Prison Literacy Project
HALLE M. NEIDERMAN, CHRISTOPHER P. DUM, AND THE ID13 PRISON LITERACY PROJECT
23 Being Held at Rikers, Waiting to Go Upstate
MARQUES M.
24 Reentry, From My Perspective
ABDUL-HALIM N. SHAHID
25 The Journey of a Black Man Enveloped in Poverty
STEVEN PACHECO
26 My First 24 Hours After Being Released
JOSE LUMBRERAS
SECTION VI
Activism, Liberation, and Reentry
27 Money for Freedom: Cash Bail, Incarceration, and Reentry
CALVINJOHN SMILEY
28 Agents of Change in Healing Our Communities
LIZA CHOWDHURY, JASON DAVIS, AND DEDRIC "BELOVED" HAMMOND
29 Rehabilitation Is Reentry: Breathing Space, a Product of Inmate Dreams
ROBERT GAROT
30 Making Good One Semester at a Time: Formerly Incarcerated Students (and Their Professor) Consider the Redemptive Power of Inclusive Education
JAMES M. BINNALL, IRENE SOTELO, ADRIAN VASQUEZ, AND JOE LOUIS HERNANDEZ
31 "I Can't Depend on No Reentry Program!": Street-Identified Black Men's Critical Reflections on Prison Reentry
YASSER ARAFAT PAYNE, TARA MARIE BROWN, AND CORRY WRIGHT
Conclusion: What's Next for Critical Reentry
CALVINJOHN SMILEY AND KEESHA M. MIDDLEMASS
Index
