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4: There is significant variation across states in postrelease supervision practices.

In this chapter:

Research Highlights:

1. Research suggests that prerelease assessments can help determine when a prisoner is ready to be released.
2. About 1 in 5 individuals is released from prison without postrelease supervision; the vast majority of people released from jail is released "unconditionally."
3. Many jurisdictions do not individually tailor conditions of release to the person about to return to the community.
4. There is significant variation across states in postrelease supervision practices.

Recommendations:

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States vary tremendously with regard to whether their prisoners are conditionally released or released without community supervision. For example, the vast majority of prisoners released in Oregon (virtually 100 percent), Rhode Island (96 percent), and California (94 percent) are placed under some form of supervision. On the other hand, Florida (59 percent) and Massachusetts (58 percent) release more than half of state prisoners unconditionally. ^[1]

Under TPCI, the releasing authority will consider an offender's risk of re-offending, determined through the use of valid risk prediction tools, when making discretionary release decisions. The releasing authority should assign each person a tentative release date soon after he or she is admitted to prison. The tentative release date serves as a benchmark around which to develop the prisoner's transition accountability plan and to define the authorities' expectations for his or her behavior and accomplishments while confined.

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4: There is significant variation across states in postrelease supervision practices.

In this chapter:

TPCI Model: Release Decision and Conditions