Question | Answer |
ReEntry | A process of release preparation that begins within the institution and continues in the community |
Two types of ReEntry programs | 1. Changing crime behavior
2. Teaching new Skills |
Changing Crime Behavior Program | Approaches attempting to eliminate behavior directly related to offenders crime |
Teaching New Skills Program | Approaches attempting to teach offenders new skills and ways to deal with daily life |
Drug and Alcohol treatment | -Eligible inmates include those who committed a crime to support a drug habit or those heavily influenced
-> only 15% recieve treatment.. 75% need it |
Drug and Alcohol education programs | -use cognitive behavioral approach to focus on problem solving, life skills, stress mngt
-for low level users
-in or out of prison |
outpatient drug treatment | -use cognitive-behavioral or psychotherapy
-for moderate users
-primarily out of prison (1-12 months) |
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment | -Therapeutic Communities
-users with severe problem in/out of prison
-in or out of prison |
Anger Management programs | -uses cognitive-behavioral approach to teach clients to control themselves nonaggressivly
-often component of both drug and sex orrender treatement
-not much research on these programs in jail/prison but data on ppl who arent in jail/prison effective |
sex offenders | -smaller group of offenders than those needing substance or anger management treatment
- varys by offense
*Programs tend to be long term with multiple regimens (Victim empathy, chemicals to reduce arousal)
-believed to reduce reoffending |
Life skills | classes designed to provide offenders with basic life skills aka learning how to do things they missed
EX: - jobs (writing resume, interveiwing, finding a job)
-finances (open/balancing accounts, getting credit)
-Personal (set/achieve goals, health edu |
where do the children live (dad in prison) | - 89% stay with the mother, and the rest stay with relatives. Less than 2% end up in foster care |
where do the children live (mom in prison) | 53% stay with grandparents, 28% stay with the father, 25% stay with a relative and 9.6% live in foster care |
parenting programs: parents in jail | keep in contact by
-letters
-phone calls
-visits
*more than 50% of state prisoners who are parents NEVER receive a personal visit from their children. Location is a key reason |
parenting programs: pregnant mothers | 6-8% of inmates enter prison being prison. If someone doesnt come get the child once it is born it becomes a ward of the state
*Considering keeping mom and newborn together in prison: 5 states allow it till kid is 18 months - CA, NE, NY, OH, WA |
Kids in prison | Us is one of the few countries that seperates kids from moms. Reason:
1. Prison is a punishment, why punish child
2. prison isnt a good parent: can skill be taught, is the alternative better? |
HIV/AIDS in prison | 2% male and 3% female are infected
- housed in gen pop except for 2 states: AL, MS, SC
courts disagree with mandatory testing but some states test inmates at intake, others only at request |
Mental Health | - more than 3x more mentally ill persons inside jail/prison than in mental hospitals
- facility isnt designed/staff isnt trained to deal with the mentally ill
-most common with female, white and young inmates
- 13-19% is severe enough for separate hous |
how the prisons responde | - keep mentally ill in gen popl and offer medacine/counceling
-segregate mentally ill in own housing and offer specialized care
-provide full-time psychiatric care in prison mental hospital for more severe mentally ill |
speakers | -They spoke about their lives: many drugs/alcohol
-there lifestyle, very structured
-liked rehabilitation... believed to help them |
Woman in prison video | - women make families
- some become lesbians
- more close knit, not as violent |