Incarceration

re-joining a community. If the life domains are conflicting then this creates tension or a barrier of achieving goals. Connections of people in society also create another web or hierarchy that can determine which women can achieve reintegration from incarceration. “Social capital is what ultimately determines who wins and loses in terms of access to success” (Grebstein & Van Wyk, pg.48). Many women find that having access to resources and finances help successful reintegration because it gives…

amount of youth living on the street and decrease the spread of disease. Decreasing the gap between the Aboriginals social status and non-aboriginals social status will decrease the amount of discrimination to Aboriginals which contributes to incarceration…

Parole is also an important part of reentry into the community for offenders (Latessa & Smith, 2011). There are a number of factors that influence parole boards’ decisions to grant parole to an inmate. Good behavior of offenders during their incarceration time is one factor. A second factor is the jobs an offender does during their time in prison. Another factor based on the state the offender is incarcerated in has a requirement of a certain amount of time served before that offender is even…

reduce the amount of people incarcerated. People being released from federal incarceration are usually placed on probation for a certain amount of years depending on their nature of their crime. While on probation, these “probationers” are expected to follow certain rules that if broken, will lead to consequences such as extended years on probation, a revoke in certain privileges, or, in extreme cases, a return to incarceration. These rules are generally the same for offenders regardless of…

President Barack Obama states that "it just doesn 't make sense to require a nonviolent drug offender to serve 20 years, or in some cases, life, in prison.” After granting pardons to over 58 nonviolent criminal offenders, he came to this conclusion. Obama makes a very good point here, why are we sentencing nonviolent offenders greater lengths than murders or rapists? The truth, America is caught up in the war on drugs. This results in failure to solve the real, bigger issue at hand. Instead of…

needs. Without appropriate treatment and programs in prison, women are being sent back into the community without the necessary tools to achieve a successful reentry. This leads women back to commit the same crimes that led them to their initial incarceration. In order to reduce the recidivism rate, treatment for women in prison should be designed differently than those for men. Being able to identify and meet the needs of women in prison through rehabilitation and therapeutic programming is…

many prisons are overcrowded (Kearney & Harris, 2014). African Americans are more likely to be sentenced to prison for the same type of crime committed as a Caucasian criminal. Laws at the state and federal levels are having a major impact on incarceration rates in the United States. The criminal risk factors and recidivism rates are significantly higher when inmates do not receive proper treatment and education. Courts need to their part to help reduce prison overcrowding, lack of…

Stereotypes and the trauma of being a black male in American society Black men are constantly depicted by the media to fit into thin, cliché parts. They are appeared to be less perplexing, and two dimensional instead of the more extensive scope of Caucasian parts and portrayals that the media embodies. I think this is of extraordinary result to society, in light of the fact that it impacts how society sees black men, as well as how they see themselves, and how they think they should be…

run. On average, New Yorkers pay about $60,000 per inmate per year (The Editorial Board, 2016), a significant amount of money that approximately equal to the yearly salary of a middle class business man. In addition, US by far has the highest incarceration rate than any of the industrialized nation in the world (Kaplan, 2014). What infers is that most of the tax revenue is used in those existing re-entry programs as supports to the US prison system. However, studies…

In 1996 President William Clinton signed legislation to “end welfare as we know it” (Mauer 2015). The legislation that President Clinton signed is known as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. According to the U.S. Government Publishing Office (1996) the purpose of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act was to increase the flexibility of states in operating a program designed to provide assistance to needy families, end the dependence…