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Selecting a Company 2
Nakia A Harris
Selecting a Company
April 15, 2019
HRM 560 Managing Organizational Change
The Virginia Department of Corrections has a viable program in which inmates also known as returning citizens, six months prior to release are afforded the opportunity to participate in the Re-entry Initiative. The Re-entry Initiative provides common skills that are applicable to successfully promote public safety. Transitioning back into the community after incarceration can be daunting and present various challenges. While integration is not easy, reducing the efforts of re-offending are highly likely. The Virginia Department of Corrections re-entry programming selects prominent individuals to participate in the program, but the program is limited to conviction and classification. Violent offenders don’t get to participate in re-entry programming. Areas of interest include parenting skills, education and employment, substance abuse, recreation, and anger management.
Additionally, while anger management is important four of the major focus areas that most offenders face is fear, anger, abandonment, and neglect. These four areas have presented systemic issues that create a revolving door that lacks the efforts needed in reducing the risk of recidivism. Theses core elements are also untapped and untamed in the lives of returning citizens. Many of the various programs are offered after release. The importance of reentry is to give former inmates support. While there are prominent factors that contribute to the successful ingenuity of re-entry defining the scope of the issues remains that most returning citizens will continuously struggle with societal norms. The struggle remains in efforts to bridge the gap between the returning citizens conceptual reality and perceptional integrity.
One major solution that re-entry initiatives should consider is focusing on the root issues of an offender. What is the underline cause and effect factor that plagues ? How can we challenge the offender to make a choice to make a change? If the re-entry dealt with real life problems and concerns to help offenders change, rather than pacifying an issue; re-entry would be the kick off to something phenomenal. Re-entry programming should focus on needs and risk assessments of an offender and line it up with criminogenic factors. Other programs should be orchestrated like guaranteed job placement and stabilized housing. Given the number of offenders in the criminal justice, both men and women in housed in correctional facilities received minimal preparation and an inadequacy of resources. Many programs are not warranted to offenders and government assistance create barriers as to what programs are substantial. With so many socioeconomical factors it’s hard to suggest that re-entry will create an upward continuum.
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