In 2005, there were 20,888 prisoners in the US prisons known to be HIV-positive, many
substance-involved. The high reincarceration rate of substance-involved prisoners, coupled …

Prisoner reentry is a stressful process and many prisoners return to behaviors that led to
incarceration upon community reentry. We assess how individual-level vulnerabilities …

A relatively unexplored area of prisoner reentry programs involves actively engaging the
prisoner's naturally occurring social support in the reentry interventions. Most reentering …

PURPOSE: Naturally-occurring social support is underutilized in interventions with former
prisoners with substance use disorders. This paper proposes a conceptual framework …

Using a retrospective cohort analysis of inmates released from Dallas County Jail between
January 2011 and November 2013, this study characterizes people living with HIV/AIDS …

Background In the US, approximately one in seven HIV-infected individuals experience
incarceration at least once in their lifetime. While HIV-infected individuals experience …

Existing research on social support and reentry primarily focuses on a single dimension of
support, such as family or community support. Informed by the social support perspective …

High rates of lifetime trauma experiences exist among men incarcerated in US state and
federal prisons. Because lifetime trauma experiences have been linked to problematic …

Objectives: Positive social support is critically important to postprison well-being outcomes.
However, researchers and program developers are still trying to understand how to best …

When individuals reenter their communities after incarceration, they frequently have
difficulties in meeting their basic needs. Social support can help buffer some of the …