Breaking the incarceration cycle: What can cities do to improve prisoner reentry outcomes? 

Two thirds of those released from prison will be re-arrested within three years. What can city leaders do to reduce these high recidivism rates? 

Jennifer Doleac, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and Founding Director of the Justice Tech Lab, will
discuss current evidence on which policies work, and which don’t, to productively reincorporate the formerly-incarcerated into their communities.