Analysis Of Parole And Prison Reentry

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In America millions of offenders including men and women leave imprisonment in hope to return to their family and friends. On an article Prisoners and Reentry: Facts and Figures by The Annie E. Casey Foundation, in the year 2001 1.5 million children were reunited with their parents as they were released from prison. Also in 2005 the number of that passed prison gates were 698,499 and the number of prisoners that were released was approximated at about 9 million. Parole and Prison reentry has been a topic that really interests not only a lot of the communities around the world but is a topic that interest me. Recidivism is not only the topic that interests people but the offenders that get off on parole and how they cope with society after they …show more content…

When prisoners are released from prison they rely on their family members as much as they can when they are first released. Supported by Annie Casey she stated “Two months after their release, a strong majority of released prisoners in Maryland (80%) and Illinois (88%) were living with a family member.” This statement can conclude that when prisoners are released from incarceration they are heavily reliable on their families for financial support. There is a difference of who the prisoner lives with when returning home and it can effect whether the prisoner returns to prison when Casey states, “Studies [conclude] that men that end up living with wives and children [happen to do] better than those who either lived alone or returned to live with a parent (Casey 1).” This statement proves that when men return home they have a better chance of staying out of trouble when they live with their wife and child compared to living alone or with a parent; but why is that? I believe that when spouses and children are present in the household the prisoner feels obligated to take care of them and support them when they return compared to living with parents the person may slip into bad habits because they are only going to have to look after themselves instead of taking care of a …show more content…

When trying to find themselves in society, jobs may be hard to come by. When prisoners find a jobs, they are usually work in jobs that one doesn’t not have to have a high-skill set, such as food service, wholesale, and maintenance and repair. The number one reason why prisoners end up back in jail is not the lack of job opportunities but perceiving that job when returning home. “Service providers and community leaders consider employment to be the primary factor in a successful reentry” (Casey 2). When the lack of job opportunities come prisoners may feel the need to break the law and return to life of crime because they cannot support themselves, so they may turn to selling drugs to make a quick buck. Selling drugs is not an alternative for not being able to find a job, especially when one has just got out of prison because if they get caught they will find themselves back in jail. Recidivism is a topic that I do not believe anyone could solve, it is hard to comprehend why people look back to crime again and again after they get caught the first time. In the article Parole and Prison Reentry in the United States author talks about how when prisoners or released they usually end up failing to finish their release sentence and out of the parolees how many return back to prison when she states, “About half of parolees fail to complete parole successfully and their returns to prison represent about a third of

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