This article explores the effect of incarceration on relationships between prisoners and their family members, examining the extent to which in-prison contact with family may mediate the negative effect of incarceration on family relationships and support after release. Based on responses from 233 Chicago-bound male prisoners interviewed before and after their release from prison, the authors examine the extent to which the quality of relationships prior to prison is related to the frequency and type of family contact during prison, as well as the quality of family relationships and level of family support after release. Findings indicate that level and type of family contact typically mediate the effect of pre-prison relationship quality on both post-prison family relationship quality and support, but that in-prison contact can be a negative influence if intimate partner relationships are already poor.
Human Rights allow people to live in a dignified manner, however, they may experience situations of violation of them. In the case of the LGBTTTIQ+ population, being a minority population, they experience in greater proportion these situations of violation of their human rights, both inside and outside the prison context. The objective of this research was to describe the experiences in Human Rights of the LGBTTTIQ+ community confined in the Barranquilla Penitentiary and Prison Establishment -Cárcel Distrital de Varones El Bosque-, for which a phenomenological design was used, where through the technique of In the focus group, it was possible to obtain information about the experience of the members of theLGBTTTIQ+ community regarding human rights within the prison. It was obtained as a result that in general most of the rights of LGBTTTIQ+ people are respected, however, there are violations, especially towards the right to integrity; to which it is possible to conclude that work must continue on human rights within the penitentiary center in question.
Finally, we would like to sincerely thank all the Department of Corrections' staff and community-based partners that we interviewed for their time and the information they provided.
is a principal research associate in the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute. She is principal investigator of the multistate Returning Home project and is also co-principal investigator of a national evaluation of prisoner reentry programs.
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