Helping Prisoners Reenter Society
June 3, 2019
To help inmates better navigate their ultimate return to society, prisons often provide them with cognitive-behavioral therapy, and a new report identifies what programming practices, timing, and sequencing work best for which prisoners and under what circumstances. Issues has also examined ways to help the large number of people already in the criminal justice system successfully reenter society, as part of a series of articles on mass incarceration in the United States.