Using Technology to Facilitate Successful Reentry Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Web-Based Reentry Planning Tool
2019-R2-CX-0023
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$1,169,360
Reentry
Multi-site Randomized Controlled Trial of Comprehensive Trauma Informed Reentry Services for Moderate to High Risk Youth Releasing From State Prisons
2019-MU-CX-0065
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$1,197,172
Resource Facilitation: A promising initiative shown to decrease recidivism in exiting offenders with traumatic brain injury
2019-R2-CX-0030
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$792,751
Northwest Indian Community Development Center- Tribal Law and Policy Institute Research Partnership
2019-75-CX-0016
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$105,000
AI R&D to Support Community Supervision: Integrated Dynamic Risk Assessment for Community Supervision
2019-75-CX-0012
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$1,197,273
AI Enabled Community Supervision for Criminal Justice Services
2019-75-CX-K001
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$1,999,778
Reentry Discussion: Overcoming Challenges When Leaving Incarceration
Date Published
August 2019
Agencies
NIJ
State Responses to Mass Incarceration
June 2011
Researchers have devoted considerable attention to mass incarceration, specifically its magnitude, costs, and collateral consequences. In the face of economic constraints, strategies to reduce correctional populations while maintaining public safety are becoming a fiscal necessity. This panel will present strategies that states have undertaken to reduce incarceration rates while balancing taxpayer costs with ensuring public safety.
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Recent Changes in Corrections and Reentry: Thoughts from Two Leaders in the Field
August 2019
What changes are you seeing in corrections and reentry?
Terri McDonald, chief probation officer, Los Angeles County Probation Department and John Wetzel, secretary of corrections, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections talk about recent changes in corrections and reentry. Wetzel elaborates on what the Pennsylvania DOC is facilitating with housing and how it individualizes its reentry programs. McDonald remarks on Los Angeles County’s systems approach to reentry and the idea of treating the whole person.
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Evaluating Reentry Programs Using Data and Science
August 2019
How do you use data and science to measure program success?
John Wetzel, secretary of corrections, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and Grant Duwe, Ph.D., director of research and evaluation, Minnesota Department of Corrections explain how their agencies evaluate programs using data and science. Duwe details how the most effective programs provided by the Minnesota DOC have been those that focus on known risk factors for recidivism.
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Reentry Discussion: Overcoming Challenges When Leaving Incarceration
August 2019
Alix McLearen, Ph.D., acting assistant director, Reentry Services Division, Federal Bureau of Prisons and John Wetzel, secretary of corrections, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections discuss programs and services that their agencies offer to help individuals overcome the challenges encountered when leaving incarceration. These various programs and services address the individuals’ needs in areas such as physical and mental health, addiction, education, vocation, and life skills.
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Consequences of a Prison Record for Employment: How Do Race, Ethnicity & Gender Factor In?
Date Published
February 2014
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research),
Presentation (Multimedia)
Agencies
NIJ
Getting Ready Program - Remaking Prison Life to Prepare Inmates for Reentry - Interview at the National Institute of Justice
Date Published
June 2009
Publication Type
Program/Project Description,
Interview
Agencies
NIJ
NIJ Journal Issue No. 258
Date Published
October 2007
Series
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ
NIJ Journal Issue No. 273
Date Published
April 2014
Publication Type
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ
NIJ Journal Issue No. 268
Date Published
October 2011
Series
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ
Harnessing the Power of Technology in Institutional Corrections
Date Published
November 2016
Agencies
NIJ
Going Home (or Not): How Residential Change Might Help Former Offenders Stay Out of Prison
October 2011
Series
Dr. Kirk discusses how Hurricane Katrina affected ex-prisoners originally from New Orleans and their likelihood of returning to prison. Kirk also discussed potential strategies for fostering residential change among ex-prisoners, focusing specifically on parole residency policies and the provision of public housing vouchers.
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Reforming New Orleans' Criminal Justice System: The Role of Data and Research
September 2012
Series
With its criminal justice system in disarray following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans invited the Vera Institute of Justice to examine the city's court and jail operations. For five years, Vera has been tracking arrest-to-first-appearance time, custodial arrests versus summonses, the granting of pretrial release, and many other decision-making points. Based on analysis of these data, Vera is making policy recommendations to assist with the implementation of new procedures and to ensure performance monitoring.
Children Exposed to Violence
June 2010
Panelists will discuss the results of the recent Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's National Survey on Children's Exposure to Violence and findings from a seven-year follow-up study, funded by NIJ, on home visitation in New York. The survey's findings included startling figures: More than 60 percent of the children interviewed were exposed to violence, crime and abuse within the past year, and more than 1 in 10 were injured in an assault.