 Re: It can be hard...
This is a complex subject could take pages.
When one considers the fact that not only are their more individuals serving time in prison, but they are also serving longer sentences. Inmates are leaving confinement less prepared to face life in our society.
This is concerning, prisoner reentry takes on a new level of significance when one considers the impact these returning inmates will have on their communities. 2/3's of released prisoners are expected to be rearrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor w/in three yrs of their release.
The return of tens of thousands of ex-offenders has the potential to effect labor markets, social services, also heath care systems, not to mention family, if any left.
Inmates face many obstacles as they make the transition from the institution back into the community ranging from meeting basic survival needs such as shelter, employment, to addressing long standing problems with addictions or mental illness.
The need to implement programs ( real ones) to make these challenges less daunting. While offender's certainly exhibit a diverse individual set of needs, it is often the most basic survival needs, such as finding suitable housing that provides the biggest obstacles to succussful reentry to society, many serving long sentences have no family left.
Some may find a residence to live that are less then optimal w/out other alternatives, placing themselves back into enviorments that are not conductive to their rehabilitation.
Additionally, those few offender's who have the money to secure a residence will likely be forced into improvished neighborhoods where employment opportunities are limited and crime is abundant.
While all the above once they are released they face also, a whole different then the memory of what was, when incarcerated for a long time. overwhelming emotionally added to all.
Hard yes, past hard almost" impossible No !!!.
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Last edited by peanut2; 03-26-2008 at 09:43 PM.
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