Prisons and jails provide social services to rehabilitate prisoners and prepare them for their life in the community. Correctional settings offer a variety of social programs: education, physical health care, mental health care, substance abuse, vocational training, parenting, and programs for sex offenders. Today, in the community, probationers and parolees must report to 12-step groups, receive various kinds of treatment (mental health, substance abuse, sex offender treatment), and live under prosocial conditions (curfew, staying away from felons), or they risk being reincarcerated. The four articles in this section examine social services in prison and those that follow in the community. Social services are being provided to those in jails and prisons. Understanding correctional programming will help to better deliver treatment to prisoners and to make for a smoother and more productive transition to community life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)