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Prisoner Reentry at Work: Adding Business to the Mix

NCJ Number
238983
Author(s)
Melvin Delgado
Date Published
2012
Length
251 pages
Annotation
This book explores the complex interplay of social, economic, and institutional factors that can encourage or prevent a successful prisoner reentry process.
Abstract
This book explores the potential role of social enterprises for providing a range of social, health, and economic support for ex-inmates reentering their community. Using two case studies, it illustrates how social enterprises aid ex-inmate reentry. Also examined are incarceration and release trends and their implications for community development. Included is a review of the major challenges that ex-inmates face in reentry into the community. Best practice models on community reentry are examined and an asset analytical framework from which to plan a variety of community reentry services for ex-inmates is suggested. Chapters 2 and 3 contextualize the magnitude of ex-offender reentry in the United States. Chapters 4 and 5 examines two case studies that are both based in California, the State with the largest prison population, a huge budget crises, and in need of rapidly releasing inmates into the community as a means of dealing with budget shortfalls. Chapter 6 focuses on themes related to employment, community-based services, and small businesses and social enterprises that play an increasingly important role. Chapter 7 highlights thought-provoking and troubling aspects of ex-offender transition to communities. References and index