The Cumberland House Reentry Project (CHRP)
Project Team
Derek Kreager, Professor, Sociology and Criminology / Demography
Project Funding
SSRI Level 2
Project Description
This two-year mixed methods study will follow the lives and social interactions of older previously incarcerated men (10+ years of incarceration) living together in a privately-run community home as part of a novel reentry program providing stable housing and peer support in the period immediately following prison release. The study combines longitudinal behavioral health and social network data and methods, individual qualitative interviews, and ethnographic observations to provide an intimate portrayal of the reentry and social support processes of a vulnerable and growing group of older previously incarcerated men in a shared community context.