Getting the Runaround: Formerly Incarcerated Men and the Bureaucratic Barriers to Reentry

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John M. Halushka

Getting the Runaround

Formerly Incarcerated Men and the Bureaucratic Barriers to Reentry

John M. Halushka

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University of California Press
29 November 2023

Jurisprudence & general issues

"Getting the Runaround takes readers into the bureaucratic spaces of prisoner reentry, examining how returning citizens navigate the ""institutional circuit"" of parole offices, public assistance programs, rehabilitation facilities, shelters, and family courts. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork and forty-five in-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated men returning to New York City, John M. Halushka argues that the very institutions charged with facilitating the transition from incarceration to community life perversely undermine reintegration by imposing a litany of bureaucratic hassles. This ""runaround"" is not merely a series of inconveniences, but rather an extension of state punishment that impairs reintegration by exacerbating material poverty and diminishing citizenship rights. By telling the stories of men caught in cycles of poverty, bureaucratic processing, and social control, Halushka demonstrates the urgent need to shift conversations about reentry away from an austerity-driven, compliance-based framework and toward a vision of social justice and inclusion."

By: John M. Halushka
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520388697
ISBN 10: 0520388690
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 29 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Institutional Circuit of Prisoner Reentry 2 • Jumping through Hoops 3 • They Set You Up to Fail 4 • In Search of Respectability 5 • Becoming Professionally Poor 6 • Backsliding Conclusion: Citizenship and Social Justice in the Age of Mass Prisoner Reentry Notes References Index

John M. Halushka is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at San José State University.