Reentry Data

Across the United States, there are 2.3 million Americans in prison or jail. Despite Americans only making up five percent of the world’s total population, more than 25 percent of all world prisoners are located here in the United States.

Additionally, of all Americans who are incarcerated, 90 percent of them are held in state prisons and local jails, and a disproportionate number are African American men. In Ohio, at the end of fiscal year 2020, 19,584 African American men were incarcerated, out of a total Ohio state prison population of 42,249 inmates. Hence, Black men make up 46.3% of the state incarcerated population, while the overall Black population in Ohio is only 14.3 percent.

With such racial disproportionality in incarceration rates and a high incarceration rate both nationally and locally for all persons, it is important to collect and analyze data, evidence-based practices, and system reform initiatives to decrease recidivism. Hence, this website serves as a repository of local data statistics related to incarceration and recidivism rates in Cuyahoga County, and an online resource location for researching best practices within other areas of reentry.

Service System/Resources

Evidenced Based Practices

Addressing Mental Health Needs among People in the Criminal Justice System

Other Resources

• Transitioning from Incarceration and Applying for Social Security
• Healthcare for Reentry Veterans Services and Resources
• How States Can Improve Access to Continued Education for People in the Criminal Justice System

Justice Housing/Community Development

Reports

• Win-Win: Equipping Housing Providers to Open Doors for People with Criminal Records
• Success in Housing: How Much Does Criminal Background Matter?
• A Never-Ending Sentence: The Impact of Criminal Conviction in Project-Based Section 8 Housing Tenant Selection Plans in Cuyahoga County
• Homeward Bound: The Road to Affordable Housing

Studies

• Three-Quarter Houses: The View from the Inside
• Nowhere to Go: Homelessness among Formerly Incarcerated People

Workforce/Economic Development

Reports

• Second Chances, Safer Counties: Workforce Development and Reentry
• Record Sealing and Post-Exoneration Offending
• Ban the Box and Racial Discrimination
• Criminal Background Checks: Impact on Employment and Recidivism
• The Integrated Reentry and Employment Strategies Pilot Project

Policy/Legal

Toolkits for Action

• Reentry Education Framework – Guidelines for Providing High-Quality Education for Adults Involved in the Criminal Justice System
• Reentry Planning Toolkit
• Jail Administrator’s Toolkit for Reentry (by the Urban Institute)
• Elected Official’s Toolkit for Jail Reentry
• Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law - Academy for Justice

National Reentry Resource Center

• Clean Slate Clearinghouse
• National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Conviction
• Public Safety Risk Assessment Clearinghouse
• What Works in Reentry Clearinghouse

Legislation

• First Step Act Overview
• Smarter Sentencing Act (Summary)

Other Reports

Wasted Assets: The Cost of Excluding Ohioans with a Record from Work

Data and Figures

ODRC

• Annual Report
• Monthly Report
• APA Monthly Statistics
• Community Sanctions Reports
• Parole Board Reports
• Weekly Population Reports
• Key Recidivism Data (most recent: 2018 Recidivism Update for 2014 prison releases)
• Ohio Prison Commitment Reports
• Average Time Served (most recent – 2016)
• Cuyahoga County Prison Commitments and Metrics (2012 – 2017)
• Adult Parole Authority Census Reports
• Institution Census Report – By County Prison Commitments
• Ohio Prison Yearly Intake Data (1972 – 2018)

Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Record

• What are Collateral Consequences?
• Advancing Community Reentry
• Perception of Collateral Consequences among Criminal Justice Judges and Attorneys – A 2011 Study

Evidenced Based Practices

Improving Recidivism as a Performance Measure