This research investigates how individuals who reenter society from prison use coping strategies. Participants are incarcerated individuals who recidivated following a previous release from prison (n = 20). Participants examine their most recent reentry experience via an interview. The research question under investigation is, "What themes describe how individuals cope with reentry from prison to society?" Data and results combine qualitative and quantitative analysis methods. The predominant coping strategy for dealing with reentry barriers is avoidance. There is a defined process experienced by participants, which is initial optimism about release, followed by craving substances, facing practical barriers, and/or feeling overwhelmed. This eventually results in avoidance of managing problems and emotions and substance abuse relapse, which culminates in recidivism.

The enlightened thinking that has classified prostitution as a social illness rather than a crime has, ironically, aggravated the problem. The short-term sentence—a futile, expensive, and farcical exercise in admission and discharge procedures—precludes a rehabilitation program and even works a hardship on the prostitute herself.The paper proposes, first of all, a sufficient sentence to make treatment possible, describes typical frustrations of discharged inmates, and defines "success" in treatment. A YEAR OR TWO AGO ThoroughlyA Modern Millie convulsed audiences with laughter at Beatrice Lillie's portrayal of the girls' rooming house operator who was actually the head of a white-slave ring. In 1910, when the Mann Act was passed to curb the white-slave traffic, and for a good many years thereafter, white slavery was not in the least funny. That was one kind of prostitution.It is a long jump from there to the present and to Marshall McLuhan's debatable contention that the entire profession is dying and indeed is already only the dalliance of elderly men with call girls, the classic top-ofthe-ladder prostitutes who are &dquo;on call&dquo; and &dquo;recommended&dquo; by previous customers or booked for entertainment at meeting and conventions. Whatever distaste is expressed for this sort of activity, we do not rise up in wrath to demand that it be suppressed, for the very good reason that even the least informed among us know the tremendous cost of suppression in time and money. With a rising rate in crimes of violence and the necessity of using an expensive and expanding police force to stem this rise, no one is very likely to make a big issue about prostitution-that is, unless he is directly offended. Recently more and more people are being directly offended and we are hearing some advance rumblings. For instance, Daniel C. Hickey, the president of the Hotel Association of New York City, states that not a night goes by in a reputable hotel that security guards are not compelled to eject numbers of prostitutes who solicit customers in its halls and public rooms. Most of these prostitutes are not content with merely the buyerand-seller relationship and are on the qui vive primarily for men who have imbibed too freely and have not carefully secured their money and valuables. There are few prostitutes who are not adept at rolling a drunk. Even

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