Introduction
Reintegration after Prisonization for African American Juvenile felons what happens to them and can them survive in the outside world? What is reintegration? This paper will examine the reintegration of African American juvenile felons. Being a felon makes it hard to find a job; in some cases it interferes with trying to get an apartment or even a grant to continue education. Felons have the hardest time in obtaining employment, it depends on the age of which the offender is put away the felony could go away after they reach age eighteen, and they could become productive members of society.” Some employers do not hold a person 's past crime against him, and …show more content…
Means to place a person back into the original system or environment from which it came. In this case it is to place juvenile felons back into the home environment or to go though transitional housing and be able to function on their own. After prison these juveniles need some type of support network to stay focused and not return to …show more content…
“These benefits include Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), food stamps, federally assisted housing, postsecondary education assistance, and some federal contracts and licenses. Given the sizable population of drug offenders in the United States, the number and the impacts of federal denial of benefit provisions may be particularly important if the operations of these provisions work at cross purposes with recent federal initiatives intended to ease prisoner reentry and foster prisoner reintegration into society”. Some states ban (TANF) for a lifetime whereas others states have modified the ban on food stamps. Proportionally more female drug felons than males may be affected by the ban, as about 27 percent of female and 15 percent of male drug offenders released from prison in 2001 could be affected. “ (2005) With states banning (TANF) these juvenile especially African Americans will be back on the streets selling and using drugs as a way to survive. The fact that they have limited if no educational background and a felony on top it will be hard for them to get a job and go back to school. In some cases the judges whether federal or state may impose sanctions to deny felons from receiving federal aid for hundreds of felons each