§60551 Offender Reentry Research

Summary

The National Institute of Justice may study how people return to the community after jail or prison. It can look at how many and what kind of children have a parent in prison and their chances of later getting in trouble, compare recidivism rates between States (like rearrest, parole or probation violations, and reincarceration), and study people who do not reoffend to learn what helps them (housing, work, treatment, family ties). The Bureau of Justice Statistics may study reentry too. It can analyze special groups with extra challenges (people with mental illness or substance use disorders, women, juveniles, people with limited English, and the elderly), study who returns to custody and who poses the biggest risk, publish yearly reports on who is reentering, run a national recidivism study every 3 years, study violations and revocations of supervision, and study the best way to measure recidivism (for example, rearrest or reincarceration).