JINS 390 - Prisoner Reentry: Policy and Procedure

This course focuses on issues surrounding the methods used to prepare inmates for their return to society. Major emphasis is placed on understanding the difference between incarceration and rehabilitative corrections, economic factors that affect prison programming and the prisoner’s experience, issues created by prison overcrowding, and the initiatives used to prepare prisoners for release. Students use current research to critically evaluate and analyze the relationships between the correctional agency, community, and individual prisoners.

Prerequisite: Junior status.
Credits: 3
NOTE:
* This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program.
** This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement.
*** This is a writing-enhanced course.