Corrections
More than 7 million people — 3.2 percent of all American adults — were imprisoned or on parole in 2006.
NIJ funds efforts to make prisons safer for both inmates and prison staff, to assess alternative sentencing and to help inmates more effectively reenter the outside world.
Finding Information on Corrections
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Prison Rape
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Reentry
Research Findings and Statistics
Ongoing Research and Future Directions
Evaluation of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative
Publications on Reentry, Parole, and Probation
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Publications
Recidivism
Technology
Statistics from BJS
Date Entered: October 24, 2007