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The Transition from Prison to Community

Alia Nahra, David Knight, Bruce Western
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences October 2025, 11 (3) 230-281; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.3.06
Alia Nahra
aDoctoral student and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Columbia University, United States
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bAssistant professor of sociology at Yale University, United States
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cPresident of the Russell Sage Foundation, United States
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    Estimated Size of Prison Release Cohorts by Race and Ethnicity, 1991 to 2020

    Source: Authors’ calculations based on tabulations by race and ethnicity of the National Corrections Reporting Program, 1991 to 2020, and Bureau of Justice Statistics counts of the prison release population (Carson 2015, 2018, 2020, 2022; Carson and Golinelli 2013).

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    Characteristics of Annual Release Cohorts from State Prison, by Race and Ethnicity

    Source: Authors’ calculations based on National Corrections Reporting Program release file, 1991–2020.

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    • DEMOGRAPHIC DIMENSIONS OF REENTRY
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