The Strategy: How Justice Reinvestment Works
Step 1: Analyze the prison population and spending in the communities to which people in prison often return.
Justice reinvestment experts review prison admission data to determine what is driving increases in the population. Using mapping technology, these experts provide geographic analyses to pinpoint which neighborhoods receive people released from prison and how state spending on programs often converges on the same families and communities.
In addition to the examples provided below, more detailed information on how specific jurisdictions are applying the justice reinvestment strategy, can be found on the “Implementing the Strategy” sections for Kansas, Texas, and Connecticut.
