From Incarceration to Community: A Roadmap to Improving Prisoner Reentry and System Accountability in Massachusetts

Group: Community Resources for Justice Crime and Justice Institute

URL: http://www.crj.org/page/-/cjifiles/reentryrpt_1.pdf

Description

With the tremendous growth in incarceration in Massachusetts, inmates are returning to communities in record numbers. More than 20,000 prison and jail inmates are released to Massachusetts’ towns and cities each year. Policymakers have become increasingly concerned with how the corrections system should manage the reentry process to best protect the public and how communities can absorb and reintegrate returning prisoners. The entire reentry process must be strengthened. This report provides a roadmap for prisoner reentry in Massachusetts, drawing from the national research literature of evidence-based practices and interviews with experts, officials, practitioners, and community-based service providers. It addresses areas of policy that have a significant effect on reentry, from sentencing through post-release follow-up, with particular focus on the roles of the state prison system, houses of corrections, and parole.

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corrections, reentry, releases, evidence-based practices

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