RT Article
T1 The System Is Not Broken, It Is Intentional: the Prisoner Reentry Industry as Deliberate Structural Violence
JF The prison journal
VO 99
IS 4
SP 484
OP 503
A1 Ortiz, Jennifer M.
A1 Jackey, Hayley
A2 Jackey, Hayley
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1743019505
AB The prisoner reentry industry (PRI) emerged as a by-product of mass incarceration, with the stated purpose of helping the formerly incarcerated reenter society and achieve a new “law-abiding” status. Traditional criminological studies point to high recidivism rates in the United States as proof that U.S. reentry fails to rehabilitate offenders. Utilizing data from 57 in-depth semistructured interviews with formerly incarcerated individuals and 10 interviews with reentry service providers across five states, we posit that although the PRI purports to rehabilitate offenders, it operates using mechanisms including parole conditions and fee-based reentry services that ensure the formerly incarcerated remain trapped in a cycle of failure. Hence, the PRI is not a broken system. Rather, it is an intentional form of structural violence perpetuated by the state to ensure the continued oppression of the most marginalized groups in our society.
K1 Critical Race Theory
K1 Prisoner reentry industry
K1 Reentry
K1 Structural Violence
DO 10.1177/0032885519852090