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Office of Justice Programs' Management of its Offender Reentry Initiatives

OJP has been making a concerted effort to attempt to break the cycle of reincarceration and to successfully reintegrate offenders into their communities. In particular, since fiscal year (FY) 2002 OJP has implemented three offender reentry grant programs to help state, local, and community organizations provide assistance to released inmates when they transition from incarceration to life outside prison. The three grant programs are the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI), the Prisoner Reentry Initiative (PRI), and the Second Chance Act Prisoner Reentry Initiative (SCA). The three programs share a common goal: to reduce the recidivism of offenders released from prison into communities nationwide.

The objective of this audit was to examine OJP’s design and management of its three prisoner reentry grant programs. The scope of our audit covered the development of the SVORI grant program in FY 2002 and also covered subsequent OJP reentry grant programs through January 2010.

Available online

http://www.justice.gov/

Author(s)

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General

Date

July 2010