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Participation in Reentry Programming Leads Ex-Offenders Back to Prison, Study Says

Loaded on March 15, 2013

Filed under: Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Sentencing, Parole, Probation. Location: United States of America.

The results of a three-year study by researchers at the University of Kansas will likely make prisoners more skittish of reentry programming than many already are.

A report from KU's School of Social Welfare, first published in August 2011, found that the heightened post-release supervision associated with reentry intervention is ...

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