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Executive Summary
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... of the U.S. Department of Justice asked the National Research Council to focus on "desistance," which broadly covers continued absence of criminal activity and requires reintegration into society.
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... Post release interventions that have shown measurable effects include treatment for substance abuse, especially when combined with frequent testing for drug abuse, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Comprehensive, multiservice employment and training programs and mentoring programs hold promise but require rigorous evaluation.
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... Such programs may take many different forms, including: intensive and detailed prerelease and postrelease counseling; immediate enrollment in drug treatment programs, intense parole supervision; assistance in finding work; short-term halfway houses; mentors who are available at the moment of release; and assistance in obtaining identification, clothes, and other immediate needs. The key is that a person should not leave prison without an immediately available person and plan for postrelease life.
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... What are the effects of neighborhood or community conditions -- such as the presence of high crime rates or drug markets or the availability of social and treatment services -- on parolees? A second related question is the role of arrests and returns to prison for violations of specific conditions of parole contracts, rather than for new crimes: Is imprisonment -- rather than a short-term stay in jail or other sanction in the context of continued parole supervision -- the best way to deal with such violations, particularly in light of the general overcrowding of U.S.
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... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  among parolees and for increasing the performance and job satisfaction of parole officers? The large number of parolees and other released prisoners in the country makes it urgent to carry out research on the conditions, policies, and programs that will promote desistance and successful reintegration into U.S.
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