TY - JOUR
T1 - Responding to prisoner reentry, recidivism, and incarceration of inmates of color a call to the communities
AU - Marbley, Aretha Faye
AU - Ferguson, Ralph
PY - 2005/5
Y1 - 2005/5
N2 - This article introduces a systemic model for rehabilitation that uses the expungement procedure, a preexisting statute, as a tool to reduce incarceration and recidivism and help probationers succeed in their reentry into mainstream society as taxpaying citizens and concomitantly alleviate the burden on taxpayers for maintaining prisoners. It culminates with a call to the African American and Hispanic communities to partner with the penal system and lawmakers to find solutions to the devastating effects of increasingly high imprisonment, recidivism, and prison reentry rates of inmates of color on children, families, and communities.
AB - This article introduces a systemic model for rehabilitation that uses the expungement procedure, a preexisting statute, as a tool to reduce incarceration and recidivism and help probationers succeed in their reentry into mainstream society as taxpaying citizens and concomitantly alleviate the burden on taxpayers for maintaining prisoners. It culminates with a call to the African American and Hispanic communities to partner with the penal system and lawmakers to find solutions to the devastating effects of increasingly high imprisonment, recidivism, and prison reentry rates of inmates of color on children, families, and communities.
KW - Communities
KW - Incarcerations
KW - Inmates of color
KW - Prisoner reentry
KW - Recidivism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=21644450231&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0021934704270254
DO - 10.1177/0021934704270254
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:21644450231
SN - 0021-9347
VL - 35
SP - 633
EP - 649
JO - Journal of Black Studies
JF - Journal of Black Studies
IS - 5
ER -