Nov 30, 2001 · Social scientists and program providers define the significance of families and family ties to prisoners and to the achievement of social goals in numerous ways. The impact of incarceration on families has been conceptualized as a form of family crises (Fishman, 1990), loss and demoralization (Schneller, 1976) and victimization of children ...

Incarceration may reduce offenders’ future involvement in crime by (1) incapacitating them, removing them from the community; 4 (2) serving as a specific deterrent, if experiencing a specific punishment increases the perceived cost of engaging in future criminal activity; 5 and (3) engaging offenders in correctional rehabilitation programs ...

The Transitions Clinic Network (TCN) program is an evidenced-based program that improves the health and reentry outcomes for people returning from incarceration. Each TCN Program is staffed by a specially trained health care team that includes a community health worker (CHW) with a history of incarceration, ensuring each patient’s most ...

Mar 30, 2022 · Today marks 80 years since the unjust incarceration of around 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The forced evacuation of people from their homes and into concentration camps on the country’s West Coast was brought about by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, issued on Feb. 19, 1942.