PRISON RE-ENTRY PROGRAMMES

Prison Re-Entry Programmes

Prison Re-Entry Programmes

State and federal governments have been showing increased interest and support for prison re-entry programmes in recent years. The rehabilitative ideal has not totally dissolved in the current era, however. “Re-entry” has replaced “rehabilitation” today, affecting the thousands of prison and jail inmates that are released every year (Garland, 2001). More people in prison means more prisoners having to “re-enter” society since only 7 percent of prisoners are serving life terms or facing execution. Two stages can be targets of re-entry efforts or alternatively impede success outside of prison: during and after incarceration. Re-entry efforts ...