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| Getting Out of Jail and Staying Out |
| By nationaljournal.com - Sophie Quinton |
| Published: 06/20/2013 |
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Each year, some 700,000 men and women are released from U.S. prisons. If past statistics hold, about half of them will be re-incarcerated within three years. One of the best indicators that someone has successfully reintegrated into society is stable employment. That can be a challenge even in times of low unemployment. Dedicated social-service organizations and transitional job providers can sometimes find work for individual former prisoners. But no one program has yet cracked the code on how to improve long-term employment outcomes and reduce recidivism for a whole population. Safer Foundation, an Illinois-based nonprofit, just completed a demonstration that its funders hope will prove that with an intense, community-wide investment, a neighborhood can cut its 18-month recidivism rate by half. "You can't treat people in a vacuum," says Rochelle Perry, the foundation's director of client services. By better coordinating traditional support services like employment programs and mental-health treatment, and incorporating new approaches like outreach to families, the Safer Return reentry initiative aimed to improve not just the lives of former prisoners but of everyone in Chicago's Garfield Park neighborhood. Read More. |
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