The Joyce Foundation's Transitional Jobs Reentry Demonstration: Testing Strategies to Help Former Prisoners Find and Keep Jobs and Stay Out of Prison
Publication year:
2009
| Cataloged on:
Aug. 21, 2009
ANNOTATION: The effectiveness of the Transitional Jobs Reentry Demonstration (TJRD) is investigated. TJRD offers “transitional jobs (TJ) – temporary, subsidized jobs that provide participants with a source of legitimate income, support services and work experience as they return to the community” (p. 4). Topics discussed in this report include: why successful prisoner reentry is a national imperative; what TJRD is and its significance; the need to provide prisoners with transitional jobs; how the TJRD project is designed; the programs participating in TJRD; who the TJRD participants are; what early implementation experiences are; and when the results from this study will be available and how they will be used.