Why did inmates in an intensive reentry program recidivate at a higher rate than inmates who received no programming at all? In the new issue of the NIJ Journal, Dr. James Wilson explores possible explanations for the rather surprising results of an NIJ-funded evaluation of Project Greenlight.

Project Greenlight was a short-term, prison-based reentry demonstration project. It was jointly operated by the New York State Department of Correctional Services and the New York State Division of Parole and administered by program developers from the Vera Institute of Justice.