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 will use current research to critically evaluate and analyze the relationships between the correctional agency, community, and individual prisoners.

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