This September's issue of Federal Probation considers the currently hot topic of "Prisoner Reentry"—hot because the record-breaking numbers of offenders entering prison in the past decade or more equals record-breaking numbers of prisoners exiting prison on completion of their sentences. Guest editor James Byrne of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, has been closely monitoring "reentry" issues in recent years and as editor approaches this complex topic that both affects and is affected by every branch of corrections, the therapeutic community, and the community at large with care in making the many relevant distinctions. We hope you find these articles an enlightening and thought-provoking distillation of what we know and don’t know about expediting the successful reentry of prisoners into society.

Ellen Wilson Fielding, Editor