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Commentary, Articles & Reports
The Revolving Door of America's Prisons: State by State
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Paying Their Debt to Society
Howard Law Journal, April 2011
Engaging Offenders' Families in Reentry
Center for Effective Public Policy - 2010
Fixing Prison-based Gerrymandering after the 2010 Census: A 50 State Guide
The Prison Policy Initiative - March 2010
The Extravagance of Imprisonment Revisited
The National Council of Crime and Delinquency, a Special Report - January 2010
Partners for Successful Reentry
Corrections Today, American Correctional Association - December 2009
Managing Drug-Involved Probationers with Swift and Certain Sanctions: Evaluating Hawaii's HOPE
The U.S. Department of Justice - December 2009
Cutting Corrections Costs: Earned Time Policies for State Prisoners
By Alison Lawrence, The National Conferences of State Legislatures - July 2009
Building an Offender Reentry Program: A Guide for Law Enforcement
Bureau of Justice Assistance and the International Association of Chiefs of Police
Preparing Prisoners For Employment: the Power of Small Rewards
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research - May 2009
Putting Public Safety First: 13 Strategies for Successful Supervision and Reentry
The PEW Center on the States - December 2008
Life after Lockup: Improving Reentry from Jail to the Community
The Urban Institute - May 2008
Keynote Remarks of Senator Jim Webb
December 5, 2008
Delivered at The Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project policy discussion entitled "From Prison to Work: Overcoming Barriers to Reentry."
Offender Reentry: What It Means to the Law Enforcement Community
By Leonard A. Sipes, Jr., Sheriff Magazine - 2008
The Elements in Inmate Re-entry
By Paul Sheehan, Community Oriented Correctional Health Services - 2008
Supportive Housing Not Always Available to Ex-Prisoners
By Bendix Anderson, Affordable Housing Finance - October 2008
Interactive Reentry Planning Tool
The Council of State Governments Justice Center presents a web-based tool to help criminal justice professionals effectively plan for prisoner reentry.
Mentoring Ex-Prisoners in the Ready4Work Reentry Initiative
Public/Private Ventures - March 2007
Prescription_for_Safer_Communities_-_ND_Law.pdf
By Chuck Colson and Pat Nolan, Prison Fellowship Ministries - June 2004
Building Programs that Recognize Families' Role in Reentry
By Mike Bobbitt and Marta Nelson, Vera Institute of Justice - 2004
Reentry: Reversing Mass Imprisonment
By Bruce Western, Boston Review - 2008
Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Community Corrections: The Principles of Effective Intervention
Crime & Justice Institute - 2004
The Second Chance Act and the Future of the Reentry Movement (2007)
A publication of the Marquette University Law School
From Prison to Home: The Dimensions and Consequences of Prisoner Reentry (2001)
A publication of the Urban Institute.
Helping Former Prisoners Return to Communities (pdf)
Part of a series from the Technical Assistance Resource Center of the Annie E. Casey Foundation
American Bar Association Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions, six sets of policy recommendations relating to legal barriers to reentry. A publication of the American Bar Association.
ComALERT: A Prosecutor's Collaborative Model for Ensuring a Successful Transition from Prison to the Community
By Charles, J. Hynes, Journal of Court Innovations - 2008
Engaging Communities: An Essential Ingredient to Offender Reentry
By Reginald Wilkinson
The Invisible Tenant
A Family Justice Publication - March 2005
Coming Home: Building on Family Connections
A Family Justice Publication
As published in Corrections Management Quarterly, 2001.
Making the Juvenile Justice–Workforce System Connection for Re-entering Young Offenders
Center for Law and Social Policy
November 2006
WPA Housing Toolkit
The WPA toolkit offers help in finding housing solutions for ex-offenders reentry society.
Reentry and Reintegration: The Road to Public Safety
June 24, 2006
A publication of The New York Bar Association.
"It's Freedom Day (Now Find a Job)" by Ron Humphrey, Inside Journal
Outside the Walls: A National Snapshot of Community-Based Prisoner Reentry Programs
Urban Institute
In Thinking About 'What Works,' What Works Best?
Urban Institute
Invisible Punishment: An Instrument of Social Exclusion
Urban Institute
Invisible Punishment: Block Housing, Education and Voting
Sentencing Project
Prisoners Reentering the Community
Sentencing Project
Books
When Prisoners Return - by Pat Nolan
Click here for a review of the book
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No Life Left Behind: Best Practices for Successful Faith-Based Reentry Programs - by Rev. Stephen Tucker
Tools
Model Principles of Reentry
Developed by Justice Fellowship to assist legislators and government officials to better prepare inmates for return to their communities.
A Layman’s Guide to Employer Resources for Reentry offers a brief overview of tax incentives and bond opportunities for employers seeking to provide employment opportunities to ex-offenders.
Mentoring Ex-Prisoners: A Guide for Reentry Programs provides guidelines and recommendations intended to increase the benefits of mentoring adults within reentry programs.
Ready4Reentry: A Prisoner Reentry Toolkit provides faith-based/community initiatives direction for creating or enhancing their prisoner reentry program.
National Reentry Resource Directory
A listing of resources by state for offenders reentering the community and their families.
Preparing Prisoners for Reentry
A publication of the Centre for Justice and Reconciliation (2007)
Preventing Homelessness Among People Leaving Prison (2003)
A publication of the VERA Institute
Repaying Debts (2007)
A publication of the Council of State Governments
Benefits of Employment
Hiring Ex-Offenders & the Benefits of Employment
America Works' Criminal Justice Program: Providing Second Chances Through Work (pdf - 2002) This article highlights an excellent employment program for ex-offenders.
The Office of Justice Programs Employment Services website has many useful publications on the key role of employment in the reentry process.
Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising (1997)
Employment Dimensions of Reentry (2003) The Urban Institute
Missouri's Model Employment Program
(2003) Program overview
Research & Statistics
Life after Prison: Tracking the Experiences of Male Prisoners Returning to Chicago, Cleveland, and Houston
Urban Institute Justice Policy Center Research Brief - May 2010
Reentry Programs Database
Council of State Governments Justice Center
Employment after Prison: A Longitudinal Study of Releasees in Three States
By Christy Visher, Sara Debus, and Jennifer Yahner, Urban Institute - October, 2008
Habilitation or Harm: Project Greenlight
By James A. Wilson, National Institute of Justice Journal - 2007
Reincarcerated: The Experiences of Men Returning to Massachusetts Prisons
By Lisa E. Brooks, et al., The Urban Institute - 2008
The First Month Out: Post-Incarceration Experiences in New York City
Marta Nelson, Perry Deess, and Charlotte Allen, Vera Institute of Justice - 1999
Massachusetts Recidivism Study: A Closer Look at Releases and Returns to Prison
The Urban Institute
April 2008
One Year Out: Experiences of Prisoners Returing to Cleveland, OH
The Urban Istitute
April 18, 2007
Prisoner Reentry: The State of Public Opinion
New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
While national public opinion has been measured on many aspects of the criminal justice system, attitudes on prisoner reentry issues have been absent from the data. Existing data tell us that the public want a criminal justice system that fosters rehabilitation, but they feel that the prison system generally fails on this count.
The Recent Re-Entry Policy Council Report
The Report of the Re-Entry Policy Council provides, in a single document, a comprehensive analysis of those elements essential to a successful return to the community, a review of relevant research, and a look at programs and policies that illustrate how policymakers and practitioners in jurisdictions across the country have implemented a particular recommendation.
The InnerChange Freedom Initiative: A Preliminary Evaluation of a Faith-Based Prison Program (pdf)
A Study from the Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society.
Transition from Prison to Community Initiative (pdf)
A study from the National Institute of Corrections.
Recidivism: An Analysis of Public and Private State Prison Releases in Florida (pdf)
A joint study conducted by Florida State University, the Florida Department of Corrections, and the Correctional Privatization Commission.
A Better Life—A Safer Community: Helping Inmates Access Federal Benefits
This paper from the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law,discusses access to federal benefit programs for adults with serious mental illnesses and juveniles with serious mental or emotional disorders leaving jail, prison, juvenile detention or other correctional institutions.
After Prison: Roadblocks to Reentry
The Legal Action Center has completed an exhaustive two-year study of the legal obstacles that people with criminal records face when they attenpt to reenter society and become productive, law-abiding citizens.
From Prison to Home: The Dimensions and Consequences of Prisoner Reentry
A publication of the Urban Institute (2001)
Preventing Homelessness Among People Leaving Prison
A publication of the VERA Institute of Justice (2003
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