But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry

by Jeremy Travis

Book Overview

As our justice system has embarked upon one of our time's greatest social experiments-responding to crime by expanding prisons-we have forgotten the iron law of imprisonment: they all come back. In 2002, more than 630,000 individuals left federal and state prisons. Thirty years ago, only 150,000 did. In the intense political debate over America's punishment policies, the impact of these returning prisoners on families and communities has been largely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877667500
• ISBN13: 9780877667506
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"