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Returning Home Illinois Policy Brief: Employment and Prisoner Reentry

NCJ Number
233275
Author(s)
Vera Kachnowski
Date Published
2005
Length
6 pages
Annotation
Returning Home: Understanding the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry is a longitudinal study of prisoner reentry in Maryland, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas.
Abstract
Returning Home explores the phenomenon of prisoner reentry within five domains: (1) the individual experience, as documented through interviews with prisoners before and after release from prison; (2) the family experience, as documented through interviews with family members of returning prisoners; (3) the peer group experience, as documented through prisoner interviews both before and after their release; (4) the community experience, as documented through interviews with key community stakeholders and focus groups with residents; and (5) the broader policy environment at the State level. (Published Abstract)