Prisoner Reentry at Work : : Adding Business to the Mix / / Melvin Delgado.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Delgado, Melvin,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1 Returning Ex-Offenders to Society --; 2 Community Reentry --; 3 Employment Issues --; 4 Homeboy/Homegirl Industries --; 5 The Delancey Street Foundation --; 6 Implications for Theory, Policy, and Practice --; 7 Further Challenges --; References --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781588269423; 9783110784251
• DOI: 10.1515/9781588269423
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Melvin Delgado.

Convicted offenders need jobs when they leave prison—but few people want to hire them. Spotlighting this thorny issue, Melvin Delgado explores the potential role of business enterprises in providing work to former prisoners and helping them to reconnect with their home communities. Delgado documents the unconventional approaches of nonprofit businesses that deliberately and exclusively hire former inmates. He finds that employers can play a multifaceted role in helping ex-convicts to face life "on the outside": beyond wages, for example, they may offer skill training, mentoring, and social support. As he evaluates the successes and failures reflected in his case studies, he provides a window on the complex interplay of social, economic, and institutional factors that can encourage, or prevent, a successful reentry process.