Prisoner reentry is a program made of offenders (incarcerated individual) whereby they are assisted with a successful transition to their community after they are released. The significance of this is that, it encourages the integration of the offender into the socety inorder to contribute in the growth of the community rather than going back to the life of crime.
On the otherhand, it helps the society towards drastic reduction of the number of people incarcerated in prisons thereby promoting the rehabilitation and bahavioural corrections for which the prison is meant for.
<em>The prisoner reentry differs from parole in that, in reentry, the offender is truely free to integerate into the society whereas in parole, the offender has a stipulated time frame upon which his good behaviour while being integerated in the society is mandatory. If he goes contrary against the expected behaviour, he would be thrown into prison to continue his sentences.</em>
