Releasing prisoners, redeeming communities
Subtitle: reentry, race, and politics
By: Anthony C. Thompson.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780814783030
Subjects: Ex-convicts -- United States; Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States; Minorites -- United States -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reentry, race and stigma; title: Media influence on public perceptions of prison life; title: Women : the afterthought in reentry planning; title: Reentry and housing; title: Reentry and health care; title: Reentry and unemployment; title: Reentry and the political process; title: Reentry and parole; title: Reentry courts; title: Conclusion.