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...Beth A. Colgan © The Ohio State University The Presidential Politics of Prisoner Reentry Reform BETH A. COLGAN Managing Attorney, Institutions Project at Columbia Legal Services America is the land of second chance, and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better...

...Christy A. Visher © The Ohio State University Returning Home: Emerging Findings and Policy Lessons about Prisoner Reentry A common metaphor in the discussion of criminal justice policies in the United States invokes a pendulum swinging from tough on crime policies at one end...

... communities safe, mini mizing returns to prison, and maximizing contribu tions to state and local economies. Where there is minimum supervision and accountability today, reentry partnerships will enhance supervision and increase accountability. In addition toensuring thatoffendersare prepared...

... capital in the United States. © The Ohio State University sentencing release procedures recidivism jail reentry prison reentry Reflections on The First Month Out: Reentry Then and Now Marta Nelson Executive Director, Center for Employment Opportunities New York City In May 1999, I joined...

... instruction to come up with new ideas to help the country better respond to the large numbers of people coming out of our prisons. Yet it is fair to say even after discounting for the unavoidable bias inherent in my observation that the interest in prisoner reentry 1 has been nothing short of remarkable...

... corrections, and throughout the vast and diverse eld of policy and practice notably prisoner reentry, probation, and parole. Those who came to know Joan, as I did, feel forever fortunate that we can count her as a cherished colleague and dear friend. During the course of an exceptionally consequential career...

...Michael M. O'Hear © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS The Second Chance Act and the Future of Reentry Reform MICHAEL M. O HEAR Professor, Marquette University Law School Editor, Federal Sentencing Reporter Mass incarceration in the 1980s and 1990s has spawned a prisoner reentry...

... and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University Prisoner reentry initiatives have proliferated in response to the enormous increase in the use of incarceration in the past few decades. Approximately six hundred thousand of these inmates will return to communities across the country each year.1 Releasing large...

... fines fees recidivism legal financial obligations criminal justice debt prisoner reentry Is There a Link Between Criminal Debt and Recidivism in Reentry? NATHAN W. LINK* Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University Camden I. Introduction In recent years, there has been a surge...

.... Steering Teams were responsible for developing and reaching consensus in a collaborative manner on local, community-based Comprehensive Community Plans for both diversion from prison to probation on the front end and prisoner reentry on the back end. To be funded by the state, the local Plans had...

... Domestic Violence When Men Return from Prison1 Editor s Note: Much of reentry research focuses on ways to improve prisoners chances of success upon their return to the community. To that end, some criminal justice administrators have started to recognize that families can play an important role...

... supervisory approval. E. Prisoner Reentry Federal prisons annually release approximately 50,000 offenders back into communities in the United States.14 The Bureau of Prisons most recent estimate is that 40 percent of individuals released from the federal prison system reoffend within three years.15 Our...

... AT SENTENCING AND INCARCERATION? (2002). 3 Alfred Blumstein & Allen J. Beck, Reentry as a Transient State between Liberty and Recommitment, in PRISONER REENTRY AND CRIME IN AMERICA 50 (Jeremy Travis & Christy Visher eds., 2005). 4 JEREMY TRAVIS, BUT THEY ALL COME BACK 48 (2005). 5 JOAN PETERSILIA, WHEN...

..., New York (Harlem), Ohio (Richland County), and West Virginia.38 On January 5, 2011, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder convened the rst Re-Entry Council in Washington D.C., comprised of Cabinet-level members to develop and implement prison reentry strategies.39 As Attorney General Holder stated...

... of the Second Chance Act, bipartisan legislation to promote successful prisoner reentry signed into law by President Bush this spring, Congress authorized the Federal Remote Satellite Tracking and Reentry Training Program (ReSTART).1 ReSTART was first developed in 2000 at the Department of Justice as a new...

... of Politics and Professionalism, 89 Prison Journal 401 25 (2009). Petersilia, Joan, When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). Reitz, Kevin R., Questioning the Conventional Wisdom of Parole Release Authority, in The Future of Imprisonment 199 236...

... convened a different group of scholars, practitioners, activists, and formerly incarcerated individuals about two dozen people each time who met for three days of public discussions on reentry. Joan and I stated the mission of the Reentry Roundtable this way: to unpack the realities of leaving prison. So...

... at that time. Parole boards should not be authorized to deny release on the ground that the prisoner has not served suf cient time for punishment purposes. Denial of release should be based on credible assessments of risk of serious criminal conduct and readiness for reentry. Rather than debating the purposes...

... recognized the importance of prisoner reentry efforts, recently commenting that r]eentry has moved from the margins to the mainstream in our criminal justice system.10 Today, in the federal court system, approximately eighty problem-solving courts operate in sixty-three districts, many of which involve...

... on the enthusiasm for ISPs as a means to solve the prison crowding problem or reduce the recidivism that resulted from using a primarily punitive model. Reentry As the new millennium dawned, the prison population continued to escalate, and with that trend came a renewed interest in the reentry aspect...