Opening the Door to Healing: Reaching and Serving Crime Victims Who Have a History of Incarceration
February 2020
National Resource Center for Reaching Victims
This resource discusses the rates of incarceration, the lack of victim services for incarcerated survivors, the gap between victim services and re-entry systems, barriers to healing when formerly incarcerated, and more.
“The vast majority of survivors who have previously been incarcerated do not get the services they need to heal. They face many barriers to services, including often not being viewed by service providers as “victims” because of their criminal history. As a result, many survivors who have a history of incarceration live with a great deal of unaddressed trauma.”