GalleryCriminal justice “reforms” that expand parole rely on prisoners’ families and communities to pick up responsibility for their care and supervision.
The last decade has seen a levelling off of prison populations in the United States. Vanessa A. Massaro writes that the reforms which have led to this trend have actually displaced the burden of incarceration from prisons onto families and communities. Through her ethnographic research in Philadelphia, she finds that care for incarcerated people imposes significant financial and emotional […]
