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                            Library & Multimedia
 NIJ Study of Second Chance Act Finds "Cultural Shift" Among Probation and Parole Officers
NCJ Number
              247209

Author(s)
          Nancy  Ritter
Date Published

April 2014
Length
              2 pages
Publication Series
          NIJ Update
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              This report presents the main findings of an implementation evaluation of 10 demonstration sites charged with implementing the first grants under the 2008 Federal Second Chance Act (SCA), in order to improve services for offenders returning to their communities after serving custodial sentences.
Abstract
              A key finding of this first phase of the evaluation is that agencies at the demonstration sites were beginning to focus less on compliance and monitoring and more on a holistic, rehabilitative model that identifies what each offender needs to have a successful return to the community. Specifically, the evaluation found that SCA funding has facilitated new partnerships between probation/parole agencies and private community-service partners that can assist in meeting various offender needs. Also, services are becoming more "holistic" in their focus on offender needs and challenges related to achieving a positive lifestyle in the community. The evaluation found a greater continuity of services from prerelease to post-release, better training for staff in working with returning offenders, better use of assessments in services planning, more reentry services being delivered, and more time devoted to case management. Although the evaluation has yet to determine what offender outcomes have flowed from this change in the dynamics of reentry management of offenders, at the time of this evaluation the implementation of the intent of SCA funding is happening. Still, improvement could be made in providing housing and mental health services, making assessments gender-specific, and preventing staff turnover. 4 notes
      
  
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        2010-RY-BX-0003


  
  
        
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  Award
        Experimental Evaluation of the Bureau of Justice Assistance Second Chance Act Adult Demonstration Projects
    
  
  
Date Published: April 1, 2014
    
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