Participation of the US probation service in the process of resocialization of homeless convicts (on the example of Washington state, Massachusetts, New York)
The study provides arguments supporting the position that indicates insufficient effectiveness of work on the resocialization of homeless convicts, who are on record in the Penal inspections of the Federal penitentiary service of Russia. In search of a solution to this problem, the author analyzes the experience of participating in the reintegration of homeless convicts without isolation from society by probation officers in some regions of the United States. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that the success of resocialization of homeless convicts, who are on record in the Probation service in certain States of the America, is ensured by active interdepartmental interaction of probation with other state services, commercial and non-profit institutions, and public associations; advance planning of this process, in which the convict himself and, if possible, his family members are directly involved, in addition to the probation officer; recognition of the fact that solving the housing problem is not the only task that would guarantee a positive result of resocialization, but is the beginning for subsequent comprehensive work with the convict.