4: Funding a Re-Entry Initiative
Maximize the value of discrete local, state, federal, and private sources of funding that target people released from corrections facilities, their families, and the communities to which they return.
Overview
Recommendations under this policy statement explain how officials in a jurisdiction could make best use of existing expenditures, tap resources that officials may have been unaware can be used for a re-entry initiative, and generate revenue to fund the expansion or initiation of a new effort.
Recommendations
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Focus resources on programs that have an evidence base and concentrate whatever limited funding is available on periods immediately preceding and following a person's release from prison or jail.
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Determine how sources of funding intended for the same populations and communities can be coordinated and leveraged effectively.
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Manage the growth of the corrections population by making smart use of release decision policies and graduated sanctions for violators of probation and parole and then reinvesting the savings generated through such measures in the communities to which
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Cultivate volunteers from community and faith-based groups to increase staffing and program capacity.
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This publication discusses how policymakers can increase accountability among people who commit crimes, improve rates of child support collection and victim restitution, and make people’s transition from prisons and jails to the community safe and successful.
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Reentry Partnerships