This manual focuses on assisting those who were released from correctional facilities to find secure and safe housing during the Covid-19 pandemic. With social distancing and quarantine policies, many transitional facilities have closed their doors to those who were suddenly released from correctional facilities due to Covid-19. Information on shelter closings and regional shelter coordination...
The U.S. Sentencing Commission Office of Research and Data examined the relationship between the length of incarceration and recidivism. Twenty-five thousand four hundred thirty-one federal offenders with 120 months or more sentencing were examined within five study cohorts. The study groups were identified as having a statistically significant deterrent relationship between incarceration and recidivism. Offenders...
The publication compares the recidivism rate of federal offenders released according to the retroactive application of the Drugs Minus Two Amendment (eligible offenders serving a previously imposed term of imprisonment to file a motion under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) for a sentence reduction) with the recidivism rate of similar offenders. They completed their full sentences...
By Kim Steven Hunt Ph.D, David Rutter, M.P.A, Todd Kostyshak J.D. |
The Public Policy Institution of California evaluated California's Criminal justice system since implementing the 2011 Public Safety Realignment. The policy has decreased statewide violent and property crime rates. However, California's rearrest and reconviction rates— and its corrections budget—remain the highest in the nation. California's recent reforms have reduced the prison population, but not the cost...
By Heather M. Harris, Magnus Lofstrom, Joseph Hayes, Brandon Martin, Alexandria Gumbs |
According to the Department of Justice, in 2018, Law Enforcement agencies made an estimated 728,280 arrests of youth younger than 18-the fewest arrests of juveniles in nearly four decades. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program Arrest reports the number of arrests that law enforcement agencies made in a given year—not the...
A 2019 evaluation based report that sought to analyze the implementation of pretrial risk and supervised release program on pretrial release rates, judicial bail determinations, and failure to appear (FTA) rates among non-violent felony defendants in Orange County, CA that resulted in little to no pretrial release rates - but instead decreased the FTA of...
By Matt Barno, Deyanira Nevárez Martínez, Kirk R. Williams |
NIJ's most significant reentry investments include evaluations of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) and the Second Chance Act, which sought to improve reentry outcomes. In a longer-term follow-up study in 2012, NIJ-supported researchers found that SVORI programs' participation was associated with longer times to rearrest and fewer arrests in general. As for...
In Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, and Palm Beach County, Florida, a three-year pilot project was conducted to assess corrections, workforce development, and employment-focused reentry agencies to provide services by the evidence-based practices. The study used a mixed-method process evaluation collecting quantitative analysis of participant case files and qualitative data. These include document review, surveys administered to...
By Erica Nelson, Greg Halls, Jessica Gonzales-Bricker, Dr. Nicole Jarrett, Megan Quattlebaum |