NCJ Number
222734
Date Published
October 2006
Length
36 pages
Annotation
This report presents a summary of presentations and discussions from the Jail Reentry Roundtable Initiative prepared by the Urban Institute.
Abstract
Informing the Roundtable discussion were 11 papers presented on the following jail reentry issues: inmate challenges, short-term interventions, community supervision, evidence-based reentry practices in the jail setting, reentry from jails for females, the economics of jail reentry, jail to community linkages, and reentry from rural jails. At the close of the Roundtable discussion, participants were asked two questions: (1) what advice would they give for building national public policy on jail reentry and (2) what are they committed to doing on the topic of jail reentry at the local level? This report represents the ninth Reentry Roundtable which focuses its attention, on a national level, on the 12 million individuals released from local jails each year. The 2-day meeting, held in June 2006 at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, brought together leading jail administrators, researchers, corrections and law enforcement professionals, county and community leaders, service providers, and former inmates to discuss the unique dimensions, challenges, and opportunities of jail reentry.