| The Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign offers media tools and resources to support informed discussion, decision making, and action about solution-based reentry programs that foster public safety and support healthy communities. We encourage you to review the diverse materials and consider how you may be able to use them effectively. |
| The Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign acts as a catalyst to encourage solution-based reentry activities. Review this chronicle of public television and community events/actions to gain ideas on what may work in your arena. |
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At the same time, some of the most important and innovative work in the reentry field is occurring at the community level. These grassroots efforts have changed the reentry framework by energizing local community capacity to meet this new challenge. Descriptions of some of those efforts are highlighted in the Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign.
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More people are leaving prisons across the country to return to
their families and communities than at any other time in our history.
Nationally, over 600,000 individuals will be released from state
and federal prisons this year, a fourfold increase over the past
two decades. From a number of perspectives, the issue of how people
fare after they exit the prison gates has received renewed attention.
Many will have difficulty managing the most basic ingredients for
successful reintegration—reconnecting with jobs, housing,
and their families, and accessing needed substance abuse and health
care treatment. 
The potential “ripple effects” of the prisoner reentry
process for returning prisoners, their families, and communities
have sparked a growing level of activity among national, state,
and local policymakers, researchers, and practitioners that is
unprecedented. At the national level, Congress has appropriated
$100 million to assist communities in preparing for the release
of record numbers of prisoners. 
Prisoner Reentry Defined