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October 26, 2006

Jail Reentry Roundtable Meeting Summary

Over the past five years, there has been substantial momentum around the issue of prisoner reentry. It is now well known that some 650,000 prisoners return from state and federal prisons each year, facing a myriad of challenges and high recidivism rates. At the same time, little attention has been paid to the issue of reentry from local jails, despite the fact that jails process more than 12 million admissions and releases each year. . . . Informing the Roundtable discussion were a set of papers that focus on the following jail reentry issues: inmate challenges, short-term interventions, community supervision, evidence-based reentry practices in the jail setting, reentry from jails for females, the economics of jail reentry, jail to community linkages, and reentry from rural jails.

Posted by Gary Holden at October 26, 2006 12:31 AM