NIJ Seminar Examines Successful Approaches To Prisoner Reentry

WASHINGTON – The Office of Justice Programs' National Institute of Justice will host the next Research for the Real World seminar on the role of institutional and community corrections and rehabilitative and reentry services in crime prevention and public safety. The seminar will support the reentry research agenda of NIJ and the Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry.

         

WHAT:                Research for the Real World Seminar: What Works in Reentry?

               

WHO:      David M. Muhlhausen, Director, National Institute of Justice

               

                 Panelists:

                 Terri McDonald, Chief Probation Officer,

                 Los Angeles County Probation Department

               

                 Grant Duwe, Ph.D., Director of Research and Evaluation,

                 Minnesota Department of Corrections

             

                 John Wetzel, Secretary of Corrections,

                 Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

             

                 Alix McLearen, Ph.D., Acting Assistant Director,

                 Reentry Services Division, Federal Bureau of Prisons

             

WHEN:                Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, 10 - 11:30 a.m. EDT

             

  WHERE:            Office of Justice Programs

                 810 7th St NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

MEDIA COORDINATING INSTRUCTIONS: Please contact Sheila Jerusalem at Sheila.Jerusalem@ojp.usdoj.gov to register to attend. All media must present government-issued photo I.D. (such as a driver’s license), as well as valid media credentials.