Technology-based solutions for enhancing corrections and reentry: Recommendations for technology vendors

Abstract

The process of reentering society after an incarceration is complex, full of challenges, and difficult for even the most motivated individuals to navigate successfully. There is a widespread need to develop and implement tools to foster returning citizens’ success upon release.

This brief summarizes some of the key challenges to reentry that emerging technology could help alleviate, current strategies to implement technology to address such challenges, and recommendations for improving the use of technology-based tools. It is intended to be used by technology vendors who are developing web- and application-based tools to facilitate reentry and is a companion piece to an earlier brief targeted toward correctional agencies considering the use of such technology.