The stakeholders acknowledge that other important milestones occur along the path of incarceration and reentry, but they focused their efforts on these three specific points in time to encourage key actors to make incarceration time well spent, not just time served. The strategies shown below are by no means a comprehensive list. Instead, each set of strategies suggests ways to intervene and support incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals to achieve their goals. The stakeholders offer Strategies in Practice to demonstrate the possible outcomes when incarceration and reentry systems adopt personalized, comprehensive, and evidence-based strategies.

The strategies presented apply to specific outcomes that the stakeholders assert will lead to more successful reentry: education and employability; housing, family and community connections; and physical and behavioral health. Additional crosscutting strategies relate to opportunities for overall systems improvement.