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72 The Ex-Offender’s Re-Entry Assistance Directory

QQ U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)
QQ U.S. Department of Education (DOE)
QQ U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
QQ U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

For a summary of these other federal re-entry programs, including
coordination between federal agencies, see the 2015 Congressional Re-
search Service report on federal re-entry programs by Nathan James:

Offender Reentry: Correctional Statistics, Reintegration
into the Community, and Recidivism

fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34287.pdf

State and Local Re-Entry Initiatives

States serve as huge laboratories for experimenting with all kinds of re-en-
try programs. According to 2013 data from the Bureau of Justice Statis-
tics, the 10 states with the largest number of inmates are Texas (221,800),
California (218,800), Florida (154,500), Georgia (91,600), Pennsylvania
(85,500), New York (81,400), Ohio (69,800), Illinois (69,300), Virginia
(59,800), and North Carolina (55,300). The 20 states with the most press-
ing re-entry needs are the ones with the highest percentage of incarcer-
ated citizens and thus the highest per capita criminal justice tax burdens:

State Incarceration rate per Total incarcerated
100,000 adults citizens
Louisiana 1,420 50,100
Oklahoma 1,300 37,900
Mississippi 1,270 28,800
Alabama 1,230 46,000
Georgia 1,220 91,600
Texas 1,130 221,800
Arizona 1,090 55,200
Arkansas 1,010 22,800
Florida 990 154,500
New Mexico 980 15,500
Missouri 950 44,500
Kentucky 950 32,100
Nevada 930 19,900
Virginia 910 58,800