May 2003

The fifth Reentry Roundtable explored the opportunities for improving employment prospects for returning prisoners. Roundtable participants discussed the policies, practices, problems, and incentives involved in connecting returning prisoners to meaningful employment.

Publication

From Prison to Work: The Employment Dimensions of Prisoner Reentry

Commissioned papers for the Roundtable

Can We Close the Revolving Door? (Richard Freeman)

Crime Work and Reentry (Anne Piehl)

Employment Barriers Facing Ex-Offenders (Harry Holzer, Steven Raphael and Michael Stoll)

Can Inmates Become and Integral Part of the U.S. Workforce? (Rob Atkinson and Rostad A. Knut)

Reentry and Prison Work Programs (Shawn Bushway)

This Roundtable was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and the Open Society Institute.