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There are many rationalizations for the imposition of restrictions on parolees. There is a readjustment period. Society has a vested interest in setting up parolees for success in the transition from incarceration to free society. Understanding incarceration and related impacts is important. Those making the transitions can encounter social, economic, psychological, religious, moral, and ethical challenges. Most prisoners are not properly prepared for entrance into the community. Reentry problems help explain why most parole failures take place after release, often within the first six months.
Three forces influence the released offender's adjustment to free society. Those forces are the parole officer, the parole bureaucracy, and the experiences of the offender. Suppose you have been tasked with exploring contributions that can help to set the offender up for success with the transition.
In your initial discussion post:
- Lay out three best practices a parole officer can undertake to elevate the potential for parolee success post-release.
- Summarize how parole bureaucracy can adversely impact parolee success.
- Lay out two adjustments for addressing impediments to success at the parole bureaucracy level.
- Correlate two ways offender experience prerelease can impact the potential for post-release success.
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One of the steps that parole officers can take to improve the levels of success for parolees
in reintegration continually gathering as well as examining the background of the offender and
their behavior at the time of the parole to understand the risk of the parolee reoffending and also
determine the interventions that can be set up to prevent reoffending before it happens. Another
best practice is to engage the parolee and other relevant parties in the process of change and
creating plans or programs that will help improve the compliance of the offender to the
expectations of the court. The parole officer should also be sensitive and respectful as well as
non-judgmental to motivate the offender to co-operate with them (Prozesky, 2009).
The bureaucratic processes that affect parolees are meant to make the process more
successful. However, in some cases, it contributes to the failure of the system. The parole
officers have to compile reports that they have to present to the parole board that then has to
make decisions about the offenders. In some cases, the boards are biased. In other cases, there
have been disagreements between the boards and the parole officers. The decision-making
happens with the approval of the board, and therefore the fact that either the officer or the board
may be biased in the bureaucratic process shows that the bureaucracy is a source of weakness in
the process (Prozesky, 2009).
At the bureaucracy level, the success of offenders can be improved by ensuring that only
people with proper work ethics are selected for roles. For instance, people sitting in the parole
boards should be qualified stakeholders of the correction system (Buglar, 2016). It is important
that there is no bias while dispensing justice. Second, the time wasted should be reduced t...
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