Jeff Mellow is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration. He is a Senior Research Associate at the Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay, Advisory Board Member of the National Institute of Corrections’ Transition from Jail to the Community Project, and Site Director in Manhattan for the Office of National Drug Council Policy’s Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program. His research interests are primarily focused on offender reentry and the factors that facilitate and/or impede successful reintegration into the community. Dr. Mellow is a principal investigator on several research projects, including the Evaluation of the Community-Oriented Corrections Health Model in the Washington, DC Jail System, a two-year study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is co-author of The Jail Administrator’s Toolkit for Reentry and has recently been published in the Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Urban Health, Journal of Correctional Health Care and Federal Probation.