"Prisoners Once Removed is the first book to comprehensively address the difficult issues of parenting behind bars and fostering successful family relationships after release. The result is intelligent and remarkably readable, packed with policy prescriptions, and suitable for a wide audience. Prisoners Once Removed should be a 'must read' for all who work in health and human services and the criminal justice system, and for anyone who sincerely cares about the future of America's children."
—Joan Petersilia, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine, Author of When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry
"Incarceration touches families and communities in unexpected ways. Shining a light on the struggle of families with loved ones in prison or coming home can help us to focus on the problems of the current system and the need to build upon family and community strengths. With rich and varied voices, Prisoners Once Removed truly helps to advance this valuable perspective."
—Carol Shapiro
Executive Director, Family Justice
"In Prisoners Once Removed, Jeremy Travis and Michelle Waul do a masterful job of capturing the most important information about the impact of imprisonment on children, families, and communities. I highly recommend this encyclopedic book for anyone interested in the problems of incarceration and prisoner reentry."
—Reginald Wilkinson
Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
"In this wonderful and timely book, Travis and Waul have pulled together some of the most important discussions about how the long reach of the criminal justice system affects disadvantaged families. They offer researchers, policymakers, human service providers, and activists both new information and new inspiration to resist the forces of mass incarceration in this country. Prisoners Once Removed is essential reading for those interested in strengthening fragile families, rebuilding communities, restoring justice, and creating social change."
—Beth E. Richie, Ph.D.
Head, Department of African American Studies and Professor of Women's Studies and Criminal Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago
