But They All Come Back: Rethinking Prisoner Reentry. Sentencing and Corrections Issues for the 21st Century. Papers from the Executive Sessions on Sentencing and Corrections No. 7:Research in brief

摘要

It is by now a commonplace that the number of people under criminal justice supervision in this country has reached a record high. As a result, the sentencing policies driving that number, and the field of corrections, where the consequences are felt, have acquired an unprecedented salience. It is a salience defined more by issues of magnitude, complexity, and expense than by any consensus about future directions. Because sentencing and corrections policies have such major consequences for the allocation of government resources and, more fundamentally and profoundly, for the quality of justice in this country and the safety of its citizensthe National Institute of Justice and the Corrections Program Office (CPO) of the Office of Justice Programs felt it opportune to explore them in depth.