Reentry

To ensure successful reentry from supervision or imprisonment, it is necessary to address the underlying factors contributing to one’s likelihood to reoffend. These factors can vary depending on the individual but commonly involve matters regarding one’s education/employment; substance abuse; mental health; family/marital complications; anti-social attitudes, peers, or personality; and lack of access/exposure to prosocial activities/spaces. To address these underlying factors, the system first and foremost needs to identify these factors accurately and equitably and then target those factors with empirically supported programming, tools, and measures. Removing debt-based barriers to education, employment, and housing, for example, is a data-driven approach to promoting successful reintegration.

For these reasons, Texas Appleseed supports and seeks to advance reform that takes an empirical approach to successful reentry.