REENTRY PROGRAMS: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Reentry Programs: Chicago, Illinois



Reentry Programs: Chicago, Illinois

Introduction

            Illinois' incarceration and reentry tendencies reflector those discerned at the nationwide level. Between 1970 and 2001, the Illinois jail community expanded more than 500 per hundred, from 7,326 to 44,348 people. By the end of calendar year 2000, Illinois had the eighth largest jail community in the United States and had an incarceration rate of 371 prisoners per 100,000 residents. The boost in the Illinois jail community can be attributed to two major factors: expanded admissions to jail and expanded extents of stay for incarcerated offenders. Increased admissions over the past two decades are the merchandise of: (1) a spectacular boost in the number of pharmaceutical regulation violators punished to prison; (2) a stable boost in the number of brutal lawbreakers punished to prison; and (3) a important boost in parole revocations of issued prisoners. (Lynch 2001) Longer extents of stay over the past two decades are propelled by alterations in judgment principles, for example determinate judgment and "truth in sentencing." Despite the long-run tendency of rises in Illinois' jail community, in 2001 the community fallen marginally be obliged to expanding figures of pharmaceutical lawbreakers and parole violators biking through the jail scheme on somewhat short sentences. Illinois' issue patterns contemplate these admissions and community tendencies (figure 1): In 2001, 30,068 men and women were issued from Illinois prisons—more than two and a half times the number issued two decades before (Hughes 2001).

 

Discussion

            "Reentry" is characterised as the method of departing the mature individual state jail scheme and coming back to society. The notion of reentry is applicable to a kind of contexts in which persons transition from incarceration to flexibility, encompassing issue from prisons, government organisations, and juvenile facilities. We have restricted our scope to those punished to assist time in state jail in alignment to aim on persons who have been convicted of the most grave infringements, who have been taken from groups for longer time span of time, who would be suitable for state jail programming while incarcerated, and who are organised by state correctional and parole systems. (Beck 2001)

            The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) boasts a variety of facility-based programs and services in which prisoners may take part, encompassing learning, matter misuse remedy, paid work readiness, and personal and mental wellbeing treatment. Since FY1991, IDOC has furthermore needed prisoners on post-release supervision to take part in a prerelease learning, groundwork, and designing program called PreStart. Community-based programming has furthermore been increased in an effort to decrease the figures of inmates returned to prison. Among these programs are Electronic Detention, Community Correctional Centers/Adult Transitional Centers, and Day Reporting Centers. These facility- and community-based programs, although, are assisting only a very little percentage of Illinois' inmate and parolee populations. (Illinois Department of Corrections 2002)

 

Figure 1: Adult exits from and admissions to Illinois jails, FY1983-FY1998

Source: Illinois Departrment of Corrections (1999) Human Services Plan_Fiscal Years 1998-2000 Springfirld. IL.

 

            The most of issued prisoners were male (90 percent) and very ...