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Reentry providers and advocates urge more prerelease programs, say programming affects parole outcomes
Summary
Reentry and parole advocates told the commission that prerelease and community-based services lower recidivism and speed successful reintegration; advocates asked the commission to consider mandating prerelease participation and to address delays between parole grants and lower-security transfers.
Community providers and parole advocates told the commission that prerelease beds and prerelease participation materially affect reentry outcomes and discretionary parole decisions.
Deb O'Brien, president and CEO of Community Resources for Justice, described CRJ's residential prerelease operations and urged the commission to require prerelease participation in the last four to six months of sentences so people leave…
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