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Amy L. Solomon Jenny W.L. Osborne Stefan F. LoBuglio Jeff Mellow Debbie A. Mukamal Title of Section i 00-monograph-frontmatter.indd 1 4/29/08 11:10:25 AM 2100 M Street NW Washington, DC 20037 www.urban.org © 2008 Urban Institute On the Cover: Center photograph reprinted with permission from the Center for Employment Opportunities. This report was prepared under grant 2005-RE-CX-K148 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Offi ce of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for Victims of Crime. Opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Urban Institute, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, or the Montgomery County, Maryland Department of Correction and Rehabilitation. About the Authors my L. Solomon is a senior research associate at the Urban Institute, where she works to link the research activities of the Justice Policy Center to the policy and A practice arenas. Amy directs projects relating to reentry from local jails, community supervision, and innovative reentry practices at the neighborhood level. Jenny W.L. Osborne is a research associate in the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center, where she is involved in policy and practitioner-oriented prisoner reentry projects and serves as the center’s primary contact for prisoner reentry research. Jenny is the project coordinator for the Jail Reentry Roundtable Initiative and the Transition from Jail to Community project. Stefan F. LoBuglio has worked in corrections for over 15 years, and is the division chief for the Pre-Release and Reentry Services Division for the Montgomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation in Maryland. He oversees a community-based work-release correctional program that provides reentry services to approximately 180 inmates from county, state, and federal systems who are returning to Montgomery County and who are within six months of release. Jeff Mellow is an associate professor in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Jeff’s research includes examining the barriers ex-inmates face when utilizing services after release. His work has been published recently in Federal Probation, the Journal of Criminal Justice, and the Journal of Urban Health. Debbie A. Mukamal is the director of the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The Institute’s mission is to spur innovation and improve practice in the field of reentry by advancing knowledge, translating research into effective policy and service delivery, and fostering effective partnerships between criminal justice and non criminal justice disciplines. iii Acknowledgments he authors could not have written this report without the invaluable contributions of many people. First and foremost, we are grateful to Arthur Wallenstein, director of the T Montgomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation (MCDOCR). Director Wallenstein has been a leader in the decades-long effort to increase recognition of the scope of local corrections and the role it can play in public safety. Not only has the MCDOCR been a full partner in this initiative and a leader in the field, but Director Wallenstein has personally played a significant role in shaping the content and direction of this project. He served as the chair of the Jail Reentry Roundtable Advisory Group as well as guide and sounding board for the project team. We also want to thank the practitioners and researchers from around the country who participated in the Jail Reentry Roundtable in June 2006. This report draws heavily on the two-day forum and the commissioned papers and presentations. TonyThompson, clinical professor of law at New York University School of Law, served as facilitator of the roundtable and was masterful at keeping the discussion focused, substantive, balanced, and productive. The roundtable participants, papers, and presentations are listed in full on pages xviii and xix. During the development phase of the project, we convened an advisory group to help plan the roundtable content and participant list. We reconvened the advisers after the roundtable to help shape this report and its companion document, The Jail Administrator’sToolkit for Reentry. Most of our advisers, listed below, reviewed early drafts of these products and provided valuable feedback. Michael Ashe, Hampden County Sheriff’s Offi ce (Massachusetts) Jim Barbee, National Institute of Corrections Jane Browning, International Community Corrections Association Robert Davis, Police Foundation (formerly) Mary Jo Dickson, Allegheny County Department of Human Services (Pennsylvania) John Firman, International Association of Chiefs of Police Robert Green, Montgomery County Correctional Facility (Maryland) Kermit Humphries, National Institute of Corrections, U.S. Department of Justice Virginia Hutchinson, National Institute of Corrections, U.S. Department of Justice Gwyn Smith-Ingley, American Jail Association Michael Jackson, National Sheriffs’ Association Nicole Maharaj, U.S. Conference of Mayors Rachel McLean, Council of State Governments Justice Center Andrew Molloy, Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice Donald Murray, National Association of Counties Tim Ryan, Miami-Dade County Correction and Rehabilitation Department (Florida) Tony Thompson, New York University School of Law v Arthur Wallenstein, Montgomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation (Maryland) Kevin Warwick, Alternative Solutions Associates, Inc. Jeffrey Washington, American Correctional Association Deirdre Mead Weiss, Police Executive Research Forum Carl Wicklund, American Probation and Parole Association In addition to these advisers, we would like to thank the following people for their insightful and detailed feedback on drafts of this report: William Sabol of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, Paul Mulloy of the Davidson County Sheriff’s Offi ce in Tennessee, as well as Nancy La Vigne, Christy Visher, and Laura Winterfield of the Urban Institute. There were also dozens of practitioners from jurisdictions large and small who took the time to participate in interviews and e-mail questionnaires. Their input shaped our scan of practice (Section 3) and informed a special emphasis on probation and rural jail systems—two areas with little research literature. We would like to thank the following people for being so generous with their time and expertise: Alphonso Albert, Second Chances (Virginia) Rona Bambrick, Broome County Sheriff’s Offi ce (New York) Gordon Bass Jr., Jacksonville Sheriff’s Offi ce (Florida) Michael Bellotti, Norfolk County Sheriff’s Offi ce (Massachusetts) Wanda Berg, Dodge-Fillmore-Olmsted Community Corrections (Minnesota) Barbara Broderick, Maricopa County Adult Probation (Arizona) Richard Cho, Corporation for Supportive Housing (New York) Gary Christensen, Dutchess County Sheriff’s Offi ce (New York) Donald Coffey, Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Department (Florida) Kathleen Coughlin, New York City Department of Correction (New York) Carol Dabney, Richmond Sheriff’s Offi ce (Virginia) Erin Dalton, Allegheny County Department of Human Services (Pennsylvania) Christopher Dawley, Norfolk County Sheriff’s Offi ce (Massachusetts) Anthony Dawsey, Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Department (Florida) Randy Demory, Kent County Sheriff’s Department (Michigan) Kamilah Drummond, Bunker Hill Community College (Massachusetts) Patrick Durkin, Cook County Sheriff’s Boot Camp (Illinois) Jack Fitzgerald, Hampden County Sheriff’s Department (Massachusetts) Bob Flynn, Bunker Hill Community College (Massachusetts) Sarah Gallagher, New York City Department of Correction Elizabeth Gaynes, The Osborne Association (New York) David Gillert, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Offi ce (Florida) vi Life After Lockup: Improving Reentry from Jail to the Community Kathy Gnall, Pennsylvania Department of Correction Miriam J. Gomez, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department (California) Kristina Gulick, Broward County Sheriff’s Offi ce (Florida) Shane Hagey, Jackson County Department of Community Justice (Oregon) James Harms, Snohomish County Corrections (Washington) Ruth Howze, Allegheny County Bureau of Corrections (Pennsylvania) Matt Jaeky, Cook County Sheriff’s Boot Camp (Illinois) Liv Elsa Jenssen, Multnomah County Department of Community Justice (Oregon) Danny Jordan, Jackson County Administrator (Oregon) Gail Juvik, 6th Judicial District Department of Correctional Services (Iowa) Patricia Kane, Newburyport District Court (Massachusetts) Robert E. Kelsey, Bucks County Adult Probation and Parole Department (Pennsylvania) John Kivlan, Norfolk County Sheriff’s Offi ce (Massachusetts) Steven Lessard, Maricopa County Adult Probation (Arizona) Judy Lorch, Maricopa County Sheriff’s Offi ce (Arizona) Kenneth Massey, Douglas County Sheriff’s Offi ce (Kansas) Terrie McDermott, Cook County Department of Women’s Justice Services (Illinois) John McLernon, Atlantic County Department of Public Safety (New Jersey) Charlene Motley, Virginia Department of Corrections Paul Mulloy, Davidson County Sheriff’s Offi ce (Tennessee) Nory Padilla, Westchester County Department of Correction (New York) Kiki Parker-Rose, Klamath County