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May 7, 2008Increased Collaboration Between Jails, Communities Can Improve Return of Inmates to Society |
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From Ascribe Newsfeed: Nine million men and women are jailed each year, many more than once. Despite limited resources and a churning population of inmates beset by numerous problems, the nation's 3,365 jails can do more to prevent crime by partnering with community organizations to improve the odds of inmates' successful return to society, two new reports from the Urban Institute, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the Montgomery County (Maryland) Department of Correction and Rehabilitation demonstrate. "Life after Lockup: Improving Reentry from Jail to the Community," by Amy L. Solomon, Jenny W. L. Osborne, Stefan LoBuglio, Jeff Mellow, and Debbie Mukamal, is the first national resource focusing on jail inmates' transition from incarceration to society. It presents an overview of U.S. jails and their population and how reentry from jail differs markedly from reentry from state and federal prisons. A companion report, "The Jail Administrators' Toolkit for Reentry," is a handbook on such issues as assessment of inmates' needs, identifying community resources, educating the public, and measuring success. The Reentry Challenge Sixty-eight percent of jail inmates have drug or alcohol problems, 60 percent do not have a high school diploma or GED, 16 percent have a serious mental health illness, and 14 percent were homeless at some point during the year before incarceration, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics. AScribe transmits news releases directly to newsroom computer systems and desktops of major media organizations via a supremely trusted channel - The Associated Press.
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