Home is Hard to Find: Neighborhoods, Institutions, and the Residential Trajectories of Returning Prisoners.

ABSTRACT: Poor urban communities experience high rates of incarceration and prisoner reentry. This paper examines the residences where former prisoners live after prison, focusing on returns to pre-prison social environments, residential mobility, and the role of intermediate sanctions. Drawing on a unique dataset that follows a cohort of Michigan parolees released in 2003 over time using administrative records, we examine returns to pre-prison environments, both immediately after prison and in the months and years after release. We then investigate the role of intermediate sanctions - punishments for parole violations that are less severe than returning to prison - in residential mobility among parolees. Our results show low rates of return to former neighborhoods and high rates of residential mobi

SUBMITTER: Harding DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3640590 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature