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Collateral damage and scarring effects

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But do the police have any reason to believe that their new approaches will work? The money may be the least of it. Consider the case of Kalief Browder , who was 16 years old when arrested and who spent three years in Rikers Island — including two in solitary confinement — before his case was dismissed.

Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice System

The trauma of those years alone behind bars lingered. At 22, Browder committed suicide.

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African Americans constitute nearly 1 million of the 2. Hispanic men are almost three times as likely to be imprisoned as non-Hispanic white men. The poor are also disproportionately represented behind bars.


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The wives, girlfriends and children of African American men who go to jail or prison suffer collateral damage. Studies show that the children of inmates do less well in school and exhibit behavioral problems.


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In addition, women partnered with inmates suffer from depression and economic hardship. One might assume that being released from jail or prison would represent an opportunity to make good on commitments to be a better person and return to normal life. If incarceration actually rehabilitated inmates, then that assumption would make sense.


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  • But alas, it does not , despite what many people believe. Evidence instead suggests that being locked away scars, stigmatizes and damages inmates.

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    A history of incarceration has been linked to vulnerability to disease , greater likelihood of cigarette smoking and even premature death. Our new study looked at how having a family member locked up related to psychological distress a measure of mental health among African American men, some of whom have done time. There is not a lot of data from respondents about their history of incarceration. The assumption is that no one wants to disclose that they were locked up.

    And most scholarly attention focuses on collateral damage, neglecting the experiences of the formerly incarcerated. Using existing survey data from the National Survey of American Life, we invoked the stress process model to predict psychological distress. We asked if familial incarceration was a stressor that went above and beyond the typical stress people experience. We controlled for social determinants that affect mental health, including age, education, marital status, employment and childhood health.

    We focused on variables that helped determine the character of familial incarceration including chronic stress, family emotional support and mastery. Going into the study, we expected that all African American men would be distressed by the imprisonment of an immediate family member.