NCJ Number
90000
Date Published
Unknown
Length
27 pages
Annotation
Offender Aid and Restoration (OAR) is a community-based movement bringing volunteers into the lives of prisoners and ex-prisoners to help them and to help reform jail conditions. The report gives volunteer and financial statistics for 1982 and portrays the work that OAR volunteers are doing.
Abstract
Tables and photographs supplement the text, which discusses volunteers' efforts to help prisoners and ex-offenders train for and get jobs, improve their education, and find ways to pay restitution through community service.