![]() A year-long effort co-sponsored with the New Jersey Public Policy Research Institute, the Roundtable brought together leaders from state government and the judiciary, civic and faith-based organizations, academia, formerly incarcerated people, social service providers and victims’ advocates to assess the dimensions of the challenge and develop sound and strategic policy as well as programmatic responses for government, the private sector and local communities. Our work in this area over the past nine years has grown out of the recommendations of the New Jersey Reentry Roundtable, focusing on helping the state address the challenge of prisoner reentry in New Jersey. ![]() It is a fundamental community development issue. For urban areas like Newark, Camden, and Trenton, prisoner reentry is about more than criminal justice. The challenges posed by this costly cycle of recidivism have been central to the Institute’s Prisoner Reentry initiative. Meanwhile, annual state spending on correction and supervision has rapidly increased to more than $1 billion in recent years. ![]() ![]() Of the nearly 70,000 adults and 8,000 juveniles expected to leave New Jersey correctional facilities over the next several years, it is estimated that two-thirds will be re-arrested within three years of release. ![]()
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