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Recommended reading:
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow. New York, NY: The New Press, 2010.
Gideon, Lior and Hung-En Sung. Rethinking Corrections: Rehabilitation, Reentry, and Reintegration. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2011.
Lilly, Marcus. “Finding College by Way of Prison.” The Marshall Project. April 5, 2018. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/05/finding-college-by-way-of-prison
Sources used:
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow. New York, NY: The New Press, 2010.
Allen, Danielle. Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Co., 2017.
“Breaking the Cycle: Support for the Formerly Incarcerated.” The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. Accessed April 2018. http://www.cfgnh.org/UnderstandingOurRegion/ViewArticle/tabid/161/ArticleId/341/Supporting-Second-Chances.aspx
Butts, Jeffrey A. and Vincent Schiraldi. “Recidivism Reconsidered: Preserving the Community Justice Mission of Community Corrections.” Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management. March 2018. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/wiener/programs/pcj/files/recidivism_reconsidered.pdfn
Burger, Warren E. “Excerpts from Address.” The New York Times. February 9, 1981. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/09/us/excerpts-from-address.html
Bush, Jack. “To Help A Criminal Go Straight, Help Him Change How He Thinks.” Shots: Health News from NPR. June 26, 2016. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/26/483091741/to-help-a-criminal-go-straight-help-him-change-how-he-thinks
“Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.” National institute of Corrections. Accessed April 2018. https://nicic.gov/cognitive-behavioral-therapy
Gideon, Lior and Hung-En Sung. Rethinking Corrections: Rehabilitation, Reentry, and Reintegration. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2011.
Gottschalk, Marie. Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics. Princeton, NJ and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Hanks, Angela. “Ban the Box and Beyond.” Center for American Progress. July 17, 2017. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2017/07/27/436756/ban-box-beyond/
Jacobson, Michael P., Vincent Schiraldi, Reagan Daly, and Emily Hotez. “Less is More: How Reducing Probation Populations Can Improve Outcomes.” Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management. August 2017. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/wiener/programs/pcj/files/less_is_more_final.pdf
Lilly, Marcus. “Finding College by Way of Prison.” The Marshall Project. April 5, 2018. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/05/finding-college-by-way-of-prison
“Nation’s Leading Corrections Administrators Call for 50% Reduction of People on Probation & Parole to Save Money and Increase Public Safety.” Columbia University Justice Lab. January 29, 2018. http://justicelab.iserp.columbia.edu/img/Justice_Lab_Probation-Parole_Press_Release_FINAL.pdf
“New Casa Report Finds: 65% of All US Inmates Meet Medical Criteria for Substance Abuse Addiction, Only 11% Receive Any Treatment.” Center on Addiction. February 26, 2010. https://www.centeronaddiction.org/newsroom/press-releases/2010-behind-bars-II
“Parole Conditions.” Legal Match. Accessed April 2018. https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/parole-conditions.html
“Offender Reentry/Transition.” National Institute of Corrections, Department of Justice. Accessed April 2018. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OIONAOuLqJfL0lKmBKz7hXgBKrrITtQunDO-wb1ZajQ/edit
Rabuy, Bernadette and Daniel Kopf. “Separation by Bars: Visitation in state prisons.” The Prison Policy Initiative. October 20, 2015. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/prisonvisits.html
“Recidivism.” National Institute of Justice. Accessed April 2018. https://www.nij.gov/topics/corrections/recidivism/Pages/welcome.aspx
Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore, Ryan Nunn, Lauren Bauer, Audrey Breitwieser, Meganb Mumford, and Greg Nantz. “Twelve facts about incarceration and prisoner reentry.” Brookings. October 21, 2016. https://www.brookings.edu/research/twelve-facts-about-incarceration-and-prisoner-reentry/
“Second Chance Reforms in 2017: Roundup of new expungement and restoration laws.” Collateral Consequences Resource Center. December 2017. http://ccresourcecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Second-Chance-Reforms-in-2017-CCRC-Dec-2017.pdf
Sherburne, Megan. “Minor parole violations behind high rate of reincarceration.” Michigan News, University of Michigan. October 3, 2017. https://news.umich.edu/minor-parole-violations-behind-high-rate-of-reincarceration/
Other Sources Consulted:
Butts, Jeffrey A. and Vincent Schiraldi. “The Recidivism Trap.” The Marshall Project. March 14, 2013. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/14/the-recidivism-trap
Ferner, Matt. “These Programs Are Helping Prisoners Live Again on the Outside.” The Huffington Post. September 9, 2015.
“Recidivism and Reentry.” Prison Policy Initiative. Accessed April 2018. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/recidivism_and_reentry/