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Report
Evaluation of the Minnesota Department of Correction's Career Navigators Program: Final Report
The authors conducted an independent process and outcomes evaluation of the Minnesota Department of Corrections' Career Navigators program, which aimed to help people with educational and career opportunities before and after being incarcerated.
Feb 15, 2022
Journal Article
Prior Punishments and Cumulative Disadvantage: How Supervision Status Impacts Prison Sentences
This article explores one way prior punishments may contribute to cumulative disadvantage: through more severe sentencing of those under criminal justice supervision.
Nov 10, 2021
Blog
Criminal Justice in the Pandemic Era and Beyond
The pandemic forced the entire criminal justice system to adapt and innovate in ways it never had before. How can the lessons of COVID-19 improve the future of criminal justice?
Sep 7, 2021
Journal Article
A Better Path Forward for Criminal Justice: A Report by the Brookings-AEI Working Group on Criminal Justice Reform
In this volume, experts offer policymakers with analysis and recommendations to support sustained, bipartisan reforms to move the criminal justice system toward a more humane and effective footing.
Sep 1, 2021
Report
Community Supervision in a Digital World: Challenges and Opportunities
Increased access to technology and corresponding increases in computer-facilitated crime have resulted in a greater number of tech-savvy individuals under supervision. Experts identified strategies to help officers manage their online activity.
Jul 26, 2021
Report
Leveraging Technology to Enhance Community Supervision: Identifying Needs to Address Current and Emerging Concerns
An expert workshop of correctional administrators and researchers explored how technology can be used to address key challenges faced by community corrections agencies.
Oct 28, 2019
Report
Bridge to Opportunities: Connecting Probationers to High-Wage Jobs
Probation agencies face significant challenges to helping their clients find jobs, and earn living wages. One program focused on the construction industry aimed to improve the earning potential of individuals on probation in Sacramento County, California.
May 25, 2018
Report
An Alternative Future for the Corrections Sector
Experts agree that the main role of the U.S. corrections sector should be to help improve offenders' behavior. Better staff training, the elimination of operations that generate revenue, and a cultural shift to prioritize rehabilitation over punishment could help.
Oct 26, 2017
Report
Public Safety Realignment in Twelve California Counties
California legislation grants flexibility to counties in implementing public safety realignment. This report determines whether counties continued and expanded existing practices or took the opportunity to change correctional business as usual.
Jun 29, 2015
Report
Reducing Gun Violence
An initiative that successfully reduced gun violence in Boston was adapted for a section of East Los Angeles with prevalent gang activity. Though not implemented as planned, the intervention helped reduce violent and gang crime in the targeted districts, both during and immediately after implementation.
Dec 22, 2010
Research Brief
Assessing Parolees' Health Care Needs and Potential Access to Health Care Services in California
California parolees' health care, mental health care, and drug- and alcohol-treatment needs, as well as where parolees go when they return to counties, place significant demands on counties' safety-net resources and on their ability meet those needs.
Jun 17, 2009
News Release
California Parolees Have a High Need for Health Services, but Accessing Services Is a Challenge
Inmates released from California prisons have a high need for drug treatment, health care and mental health services, but they face barriers to accessing such aid because many return to communities where health care services are severely strained.
Jun 11, 2009
Report
California Parolees Have a High Need for Health Services, but Accessing Services Is a Challenge
Inmates released from California prisons have a high need for drug treatment, health care and mental health services, but they face barriers to accessing such aid because many return to communities where health care services are severely strained.
May 29, 2009
Journal Article
Does Parolee Drug Testing Influence Employment and Education Outcomes? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with Noncompliance
Despite the ubiquity of drug testing in criminal justice settings, there is little experimental evidence suggesting that testing reduces drug use or engenders pro-social behavior. This paper estimates the effect of parolee drug testing on labor and education outcomes with data from a randomized experiment involving 1,958 young parolees.
Jan 1, 2008
Journal Article
The Future of DIRECT Surveillance: Drug and Alcohol Use Information from REmote and Continuous Testing
The focus of this essay is on alcohol use among probationers and parolees, but is also explores use of electronic monitoring technologies in other settings, and for other drugs.
Jan 1, 2008
Report
Criminal Careers of Habitual Felons
Analysis of interviews with 49 prison inmates - armed robbers serving at least their second prison term. The interviews probed patterns of criminality; criminal sophistication; treatment by criminal justice agencies; and drug and alcohol involvement.
Jan 1, 1977
Report
Criminal Careers of Habitual Felons: A Summary Report
Summarizes findings from a project designed to examine the criminal careers of habitual felons. In-depth personal interviews with 49 prison inmates are the primary source of data.
Jan 1, 1977

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