Article: The Kansas Offender Risk Reduction and Reentry Plan: risk reduction and reentry impacts every area of operation in the department and depends on the participation of many key state and local partners.

More than four years ago, Kansas started developing strategies to reduce the rate at which offenders returned to or entered prison for non-compliance under supervision. At that time, the largest group of admissions to prison was parole violators with no new sentences, or in corrections jargon, "technical violators." Through internal planning, and work through several topic-specific technical assistance grants (condition violators, offenders with mental illness, sex offenders), we began to realize how complex the issue of reentry really is. Kansas, like many states, received federal funds through the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI), which provided an ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!