A report by the Urban Institute evaluates Safer Return, a community-based reentry program that attempted to help more than 700 formerly incarcerated people transition to home life in East Garfield Park, Chicago, between 2008 and 2013. The report states that program participants were more likely than a comparison group to find legal employment within four months of reentry, to have higher wages, and to find employment quickly after release. However, the report found that these effects appeared to fade over time.
