Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center (Urban-JPC) initiated a 12-month process and outcome evaluation of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania reentry programs under the Second Chance Act Adult Offender Reentry Demonstration Programs initiative. The first of these two programs linked sentenced Allegheny County jail inmates to Reentry Specialists, who coordinated reentry services and programming in jail and the...

Males are overwhelmingly more likely to get arrested than women. In a sample of roughly 20,000 people, female arrest prevalence was 17 %, less than half that observed for males which was 43 %. The study also explored the relationship between sex and race/ethnicity(simultaneously) and arrest prevalence; where males exhibited higher arrest rates than females...