§60551 Offender reentry research

Summary

The National Institute of Justice may do research on people leaving jail or prison. That includes a study counting and describing minor children who had a parent locked up and how likely they are to get into trouble later, a study to compare recidivism rates among States (recidivism means rearrest, parole or probation violations, or return to prison), and a study of people who do not reoffend and what helps them (like housing, work, treatment, and family). The Bureau of Justice Statistics may also study reentry. That work can look at special groups (for example, prisoners with mental illness or substance use disorders, women, juveniles, people with limited English, and the elderly), who returns to prison and who is most risky, annual reports on who is reentering from prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities, a national recidivism study every 3 years, studies of supervision violations and revocations, and research on the best way to measure recidivism (for example, rearrest or reincarceration).