Publications

Reentry Partnerships: A Guide for States & Faith-Based and Community Organizations

Policy Framework to Strengthen Community Corrections
the Pew Center on the States’ Public Safety Performance Project (2008)

The “Policy Framework to Strengthen Community Corrections” offers state policy makers a menu of five provisions that help corrections agencies implement “evidence-based practices” by providing fiscal incentives, clearing obstacles, enhancing their authority, and tracking their results. The individual sections will have impact if adopted alone; taken together, however, they offer policy makers a powerful opportunity to help reduce victimization and control corrections spending.

SCA Mentoring Grants

From Prison to Work: A Proposal for a National Prisoner Reentry Program
The Brookings Institution (2008)

In this paper, Bruce Western of Harvard University proposes a national prisoner reentry program whose core element is up to a year of transitional employment available to all parolees in need of work. Transitional jobs are supplemented by substance-abuse treatment and housing after release, expanded work and educational programs in prison, and the restoration of eligibility for federal benefits for those with felony records. The program costs are offset by increased employment and reduced crime and correctional costs for program participants. By shifting supervision from custody in prison to intensive programs in the community, the national reentry program improves economic opportunity and reduces prison populations.

Putting Public Safety First: 13 Strategies for Successful Supervision and Reentry (Public Safety Policy Brief)
The Pew Center on the States’ Public Safety Performance Project (2008)

In 2007, the Urban Institute convened two meetings with national experts on the topic of community supervision. The goal of these meetings was to articulate participants' collective best thinking on parole and probation, violation and revocation practices, and what contributes to effective community supervision. Over the course of these meetings, participants identified the supervision policies and strategies that would help policy makers and practitioners improve public safety and make the best use of taxpayers' dollars. The 13 strategies outlined in this brief are the result of these discussions and a review of the research literature.

Putting Public Safety First: 13 Strategies for Successful Supervision and Reentry (Report)
The Urban Institute (2008)

In 2007, the Urban Institute convened two meetings with national experts on the topic of parole supervision. The goal of the meetings was to articulate participants’ collective best thinking on parole supervision, violation, and revocation practices and to identify policies and strategies that would help policymakers and practitioners improve public safety and make the best use of taxpayer dollars. This paper, the result of those meetings and a review of the research literature, describes 13 key strategies to enhance reentry outcomes along with examples from the field.

Putting Public Safety First: 13 Parole Supervision Strategies to Enhance Reentry Outcomes
Urban Institute (2008)

With the support and guidance of the JEHT Foundation and the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), the Urban Institute convened two meetings with national experts on the topic of parole supervision. This resulting paper was cowritten by eight authors in four organizations and reflects the views of many leading parole experts and practitioners, both attendees of these meetings and additional leading scholars and practitioners who could not attend but weighed in with their insights and feedback.

Jails in Indian Country, 2007
U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (2008)

At midyear 2007, 2,163 inmates were confined in Indian country, up from 1,745 inmates (24%) at midyear 2004.

National Blueprint for Reentry
National H.I.R.E. Network (2008)

The National H.I.R.E. Network, in conjunction with the National Reentry Consortium, presents this National Blueprint for Reentry, a comprehensive plan for developing a national policy agenda to improve employment and educational opportunities for people with criminal records.

Juvenile Arrests 2006
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (2008)

Juvenile Arrests 2006 summarizes juvenile data cited in the FBI report Crime in the United States 2006.

Partnering with Faith-based and Community Organizations: A Guide for State and Local Officials Administering Federal Block and Formula Grant Funds
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2008)

This guidebook is intended to provide practical information on developing and enhancing partnerships with effective faith-based and community organizations (FBCOs) to State and local officials, and to tribes and tribal-serving organizations that are administering federal block and formula grant funds. The underlying assumptions of this guidebook are that there are barriers to more active partnership between States and localities and FBCOs and that these barriers can be addressed.

Info Brief: A Place To Live
Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (2008)

Steps to help people maintain housing in times of crisis.

Policy Brief: Critical Time Intervention for Prison and Jail Reentry
Center for Behavioral Health Services and Criminal Justice Research (2008)

Critical Time Intervention (CTI), an intervention model for the reentry of people with mental illness, uses three phases to support transitions from institutional settings into community settings. CTI combines several evidence-based tools, including cognitive behavioral therapy, illness management, supported housing, integrated dual disorder treatment, and motivational enhancement. The intervention suits the transitional nature of the reentry process, the complexity of service and treatment needs, and the demand for individualized services.

Effective County Practices in Jail-to-Community Transition Planning for Offenders with Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders
National Association of Counties (2008)

This publication is designed for county elected officials, administrators and staff, social service and community providers, local law enforcement, jail and corrections professionals, and other relevant members of the community who are interested in reentry options for offenders with mental health and substance abuse disorders. In most cases, the county board of commissioners is responsible for the jail operating budget; therefore, these local officials are key policymakers in advancing successful reentry practices.

Moving Target: A Decade of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex
Justice Policy Institute (2008)

According to this report by the Justice Policy Institute, the U.S. prison industrial complex continues to find ways to expand and adapt, despite the fact that a decade-long battle against imprisonment, surveillance, and policing has educated the public about the dangers of imprisonment and helped to slow prison growth.

Private Prisons and Recidivism Rates
National Crime Prevention Council, Research and Evaluation Department (2008)

Research brief with recidivism statistics for private prisons in OK.

Eligible for Justice: Guidelines for Appointing Defense Counsel
Brennan Center for Justice (2008)

In this report, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law presents information about best practices for determining financial eligibility for free counsel. The report gathers, in one place, existing standards and procedures, relevant judicial precedent, and the specific views of many defenders in communities around the country.

Sustaining Grassroots Community-Based Programs: A Toolkit for Community- and Faith-Based Service Providers
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (2008)

This toolkit is designed to help grassroots community- and faith-based organizations develop sustainable organizations and program services. The toolkit provides helpful information to guide sustainability planning efforts, samples of tools, and actual fill-in-the-blank “planning templates” and worksheets.

Treatment and Reentry Practices for Sex Offenders: An Overview of States
Vera Institute of Justice (2008)

This report provides an overview and analysis of existing treatment and reentry practices for sex offenders involved with the criminal justice system. Drawing on information that was collected by Vera researchers from policymakers and treatment providers in the 50 states and Washington, DC, it emphasizes the structure, content, and availability of those programs and, when applicable, compares current practices to research findings. Specifically, it focuses on four broad areas of practice: treatment in prison, treatment under community supervision, reentry programming, and community supervision.

Mapping Community Data on Children of Prisoners: Strategies and Insights
The Urban Institute (2008)

This policy brief discusses the analysis and mapping of local data on children whose parents are involved in the criminal justice system. The brief begins by highlighting the value of such efforts and then outlines potential data sources and methods for analyzing and mapping information on this population. The report is based on input from the Reentry Mapping Network (RMN) sites about their efforts to map and understand parental incarceration in their communities.