Pros And Cons Of Reintegration Of Prisons
Reintegration of Prisoners – Is it possible?
The reintegration of prisoners back into “normal” everyday living is a difficult and seemingly impossible task. The challenges offenders on probation or parole face are great in number and size. Each criminal faces different hurdles based on their demographic, gender, length of stay, individual background, racial background, offense history, and the strength of their support system upon release. I believe that reentry is a realistic expectation; however, we must consider each case and focus on the support provided the offender as they enter back into a society that has shunned them. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics over 4.9 million adult men and women were under Federal, State, …show more content…
The Prisoner Reentry Initiative employs reentry programs that begin in correctional institutions and follow the offender as they attempt to transition and stabilize themselves in the community. These programs focus on individual reentry plans that address issues offenders will face as they return to the community. The initiative includes three phases. The first phase, Protect and Prepare, is meant to help prepare the offender for reentry while institutionalized. This phase includes education, mental health, substance abuse treatment, job training, mentoring, and full diagnostic and risk assessment programs. Phase two, Control and Restore, focuses on community based programs. Programs include job skills training, life skills training, monitoring, education, mentoring, mental health treatment, and substance abuse treatment. The third and final phase, Sustain and Support, focuses on long term community based programs. This third phase is designed to keep those individuals who have left the supervision of probation or parole connected with community and social services …show more content…
and Elaine Wolf, Ph.D. suggests the use of six stage model of reentry beginning at the arrest of the offender. The six stages of their model are pretrial release, plea bargaining/sentencing negotiations, sentencing, self-development/perpetration for reentry while prison, release after serving sentence, and parole provocation. The plan is devised to be implemented at any stage at which a person is released as well as during the sentencing phase. If a defendant is released prior to trial the reentry plan would be used to help reintegrate the person at that point if sentenced to jail or prison time and not immediately released the plan would be used to help prepare for reentry while the prisoner is
The reintegration of prisoners back into “normal” everyday living is a difficult and seemingly impossible task. The challenges offenders on probation or parole face are great in number and size. Each criminal faces different hurdles based on their demographic, gender, length of stay, individual background, racial background, offense history, and the strength of their support system upon release. I believe that reentry is a realistic expectation; however, we must consider each case and focus on the support provided the offender as they enter back into a society that has shunned them. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics over 4.9 million adult men and women were under Federal, State, …show more content…
The Prisoner Reentry Initiative employs reentry programs that begin in correctional institutions and follow the offender as they attempt to transition and stabilize themselves in the community. These programs focus on individual reentry plans that address issues offenders will face as they return to the community. The initiative includes three phases. The first phase, Protect and Prepare, is meant to help prepare the offender for reentry while institutionalized. This phase includes education, mental health, substance abuse treatment, job training, mentoring, and full diagnostic and risk assessment programs. Phase two, Control and Restore, focuses on community based programs. Programs include job skills training, life skills training, monitoring, education, mentoring, mental health treatment, and substance abuse treatment. The third and final phase, Sustain and Support, focuses on long term community based programs. This third phase is designed to keep those individuals who have left the supervision of probation or parole connected with community and social services …show more content…
and Elaine Wolf, Ph.D. suggests the use of six stage model of reentry beginning at the arrest of the offender. The six stages of their model are pretrial release, plea bargaining/sentencing negotiations, sentencing, self-development/perpetration for reentry while prison, release after serving sentence, and parole provocation. The plan is devised to be implemented at any stage at which a person is released as well as during the sentencing phase. If a defendant is released prior to trial the reentry plan would be used to help reintegrate the person at that point if sentenced to jail or prison time and not immediately released the plan would be used to help prepare for reentry while the prisoner is