Pros And Cons Of Offender Reentry

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People who have dedicated their careers to community corrections often find the growing interest in offender reentry troubling. Undoubtedly, they’re right that “reentry” is simply a new-or at least newly modern-label for an old process. They’re also right that the new interest could usefully combine around long-standing initiatives that have lost drive, such as transitional punishments. Nevertheless, community corrections specialists who have taken a longer look at the recent rebuilding of offender reentry acknowledge that it can, potentially spur important advances and opportunities. In states that have focused in the past almost exclusively on more penalties for offenders under community supervision, some policymakers have come to admit

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