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Are there broader lessons to be drawn from Michael Vick's up-coming prisoner reentry story?

By Douglas A. Berman

I cannot listen to sport radio without being reminded of an interesting criminal justice story unfolding this week: Michael Vick is scheduled to be released from the federal prison in Leavenworth after serving about 19 months of his 23-month federal sentence.  This local article provides some of the high-profile re-entry details for Vick: When Michael Vick gets out of prison later this week, he'll join about 120,000 other federal ex-cons under court-ordered supervision.  Statistics show that about a third will end up back in prison. Vick is scheduled to leave the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., either Wednesday or Thursday.  He'll arrive in Hampton [Virginia] and be immediately placed in home confinement.  A federal community corrections officer will be able to monitor his every move, with the help of an electronic tracking device...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).