Prison to Empowerment Pipeline: Critical Perspectives on Re-Framing Re-Entry

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

Looking at the realities of prisoner reentry from a critical perspective, members of the Critical Social Psychology working group on The Criminal Punishment System and Community-Based Research at the Graduate Center, CUNY discuss recent research that re-frames re-entry. Recognizing that re-entry entails much more that returning people home from prison, we look at ways to build community that includes people returning from detention facilities and prisons as a way to disrupt the school to prison pipeline and cycles of reincarceration. We take examples from our research in juvenile re-entry, higher education as re-entry, and the use of a re-settlement framework for understanding and facilitating successful re-entry that overcomes oppression and enhances communities.

Sub Unit

• Area IV. Criminal Justice Policy and Practice / 43. Prisoner Reentry

Individual Presentations

• Co-creating the "School to Liberation Pipeline": How young people envision successful re-entry - Whitney Richards-Calathes, CUNY Graduate Center

• Expanding the scope of justice: Higher education, reentry and moral inclusion - Alexis Halkovic, CUNY Graduate Center

• Re-settlement: Bringing human rights into the re-entry process - Andrew Cory Greene, The Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions

Chair

• Andrew Cory Greene, The Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions