Health and Accommodation Needs for Ex Prisoners

Research Questions 4 4. Hypothesis 4 4. Positive Hypothesis 4 4. Null Hypothesis 5 5. Research Objectives 5 6. Background of the Research From general observations, it has been established that ex-convicts are not properly inducted back into their communities due to poor prisoner reentry prisoners. As compared with other countries such as USA, the government of New Zealand has not effectively outlined facilitation programs for released prisoners. As a result, it becomes difficult for the individuals to adapt to the new environments in which they had been once accused and sentenced of criminal activities (Jonson & Cullen, 2015). In extreme situations, some released prisoners are faced with a challenge of tracing back their families who might have moved from one place to another. For parents who separated with their families while serving longer jail sentences, they might experience hostility and rejection by their children who were younger by then.

Other aims include; creating an orientation program for inducting the released prisoners into the community, organizing a welfare association for the ex-prisoners and creating public awareness about the needs of these released individuals. Research Questions i. What are the health and accommodation needs of ex-prisoners? ii. How can the government assist in improving the social well-being of ex-prisoners? iii. Does the community have a role in the orientation programs of ex-prisoners? iv. Research Objectives The major objective of this research is to ascertain a recommendable healthcare and accommodation facilities for people who have been just released from prison. Additionally, there are secondary objectives like; i. To determine the specific needs of ex-prisoners who might have contracted strange diseases while serving longer sentences ii.

To ensure that every released prisoner is reunited back with their families and that, they retain an entitlement to their initial places of residence iii. To bargain for an allocation of health insurance to those ex-convicts who are identified to have acquired chronic disorders while in prison. In their argument, inmates who serve longer sentences usually get used to the prison systems such that it becomes a culture and a lifestyle. The researchers compared such experience to migration from one region and settling in another place, far away. By the time you get to where the journey started, it becomes difficult to trace the original locations and people who might have been familiar. Owing to the unfavorable prison environment, some inmates are psychologically tortured such that they need to undergo a rigorous rehabilitation process in order to assimilate with the normal people in the community (Wheeler & Patterson, 2008).

Therefore, some of these people are likely to face more challenges when they are released without proper plans of familiarizing them with the dynamics in the society. As a result, the research strategy involved surveying techniques such as interviews and use of questionnaires. In both methods, the researcher outlined research questions in a technical manner such that participants could feel the engagement throughout the survey session (Neuman, 2013). For the questionnaires, booklets would be administered to participants and collected at a predetermined future date while interviews involved direct engagements between the researcher and respondents. Sample Owing to the large number of prisoners who are being released each year in different parts of the world, it was necessary to identify a suitable sample population.

For the purposes of convenience and financial constraints, the researcher focused on the New Zealand population. The reason for this occurrence has been associated to the fact that starting a new way of life after serving longer terms in prison requires an intensive orientation and induction program. According to this study, it was evident that parents become traumatized when released back to the families because their grown children could hardly recognize them. It was also identified that people who were once sentenced for serious offences like murder, robbery with violence or rape could still be marginalized in their societies even if they showed proof of reforms. The study also indicated that ex-prisoners were denied accommodation services under the government’s housing programs as a way of restricting their interactions with the innocent and peaceful public.

In terms of health services, the results indicated that there were no existing programs for the provision of specialized healthcare to ex-convicts who might have contracted chronic ailments while in prison. True, J. Framework for research ethics and evaluation: justification and guidelines. Garland, B. Wodahl, E. J. P. Richie, M. Maruna, S. Helping others as a response to reconcile a criminal past: The role of the wounded healer in prisoner reentry programs. Criminal justice and behavior, 42(1), 108-120. Social research methods: Qualitative and quantitative approaches. Pearson education. Wheeler, D. P. Patterson, G.