Jamie Fader, assistant professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany and author of Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth, discusses her research on incarcerated young men of color and the disjuncture between their aspirations at the point of release from a residential facility and the structural hurdles and realities they face upon returning home to family and community in an urban setting.
This interview is part of Vera's Neil A. Weiner Research Speaker Series.
With demand for workers rising, employers are more open than ever to hiring people with conviction histories, and Departments of Correction (DOCs) are positioning people in their custody to secure career-track infrastructure jobs. DOCs have developed strategic partnerships with employers, colleges, and community-based organizations to provide job t ...
He spent the next several months in a halfway house, then living with his niece, then at his sister’s, then going back and forth between their places. Last fall, several months after he applied for public housing, he received a letter from the Winnebago Housing Authority, now known as Northern Illinois Regional Affordable Community Housing (NI ReAC ...
Today, the total number of incarcerated women—including in state and federal prisons—is five times higher than it was in 1980. And the estimated 1.2 million women who are under the control of the criminal legal system are not suffering the effects of mass incarceration and mass supervision alone. More than 58 percent of women in state and federal p ...
