The resources below provide more information on the TJC initiative, the model and the learning sites. Check back as additional resources will be released throughout the project.
TJC Materials:
Additional information on transition from jail and prison is available from the National Institute of Corrections.
Other Jail Transition Resources:
Life After Lockup: Improving Reentry from Jail to the Community presents an overview of jail reentry and explores how it differs from reentry from state and federal prison. It also includes examples of jail/community transition efforts from around the country.
The Jail Administrators’ Toolkit for Reentry is a handbook for jail practitioners interested in addressing jail/community transition. It covers topics such as assessing inmates’ needs, identifying community resources, educating the public, and measuring the success of jail/community transition efforts.
Jail Reentry Roundtable. In June 2006, The Urban Institute, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the Montgomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation partnered to convene a Jail Reentry Roundtable on the topic of jail to community transition. Materials available online include the nine papers commissioned for the Roundtable and a summary of the discussion.
