Successful Transition and Reentry for Safer Communities: A Call to Action for Parole

The release each year of hundreds of thousands of people from prison to communities all across America has established offender reentry as a high profile issue on national and state policy agendas. The urgency of this call to action stems from several critical factors. First, a major proportion of offenders failing upon reentry – and returning to prison – are doing so as a result of parole violations and revocations. Second, one of the most basic and compelling lessons emerging form the research about enhancing successful reentry is the importance of targeting resources to higher risk offenders according to needs relating to their criminality. Third, paroling authorities are well positioned to reduce the severe fragmentation that hampers criminal justice system efforts. Lastly, this is an urgent call to action because the window of opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
 

Authors:
Peggy Burke
Michael Tonry

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