Parole, Reentry, and Reintegration
Community places of residence after incarceration operated by the corrections department or faith-based organisations.
What are halfway houses?
8 hours of work (carpentry or manufacturing shoes/clothes) and 4 hours of schooling.
What is a typical day in a New York or Philadelphia house of refuge?
Acts that are legal for adults but illegal for juveniles.
What are status offenses?
The temporary suspension of an activity or law, e.g. the death penalty.
What is a moratorium?
Finding housing and employment, reconnecting with family and friends, accessing healthcare and substance abuse treatment, and engaging civically and socially.
What are barriers to reentry?
To remove impressionable youth from hardened adult prison settings to reduce “contamination” from adult prisoners.
What was the purpose of Houses of Refuge?
Formed from a count of the number of crimes committed over time by age. Offending peaks in mid-adolescence.
What is the age-crime curve?
The current most common method of execution in the United States.
What is lethal injection?
Offenders remain in their homes aside from specified, approved activites.
What is house arrest?
The first prison constructed specifically for women after a pregnant woman was lashed and killed in a New York state prison.
What is Mount Pleasant Prison?
A doctrine that allows the court to intervene to protect a juvenile going through the JJ system.
What is Parens Patriae?
Change in the language used in death penalty discourse from legality, morality, and fairness to innocence.
What is the Innocence Revolution?