The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/corrections/prisoner-reentry/)
A new rule recently published by the Justice Department allows more people to participate in a program that grants prisoners the opportunity to earn shorter jail terms, through the First Step Act.
Anyone who participates in the 12-week course sponsored by the business development office receives at least a $2,000 grant to help them launch their business.
In this holiday season, exoneree Troy Burner offers a poignant example of how the stigma of incarceration doesn’t end with release from prison — and almost derailed a long-awaited family reunion.
An innovative program offered in 11 California prisons as well as facilities in Indiana and Ohio offers incarcerees the chance to train as professional horticulturalists and landscapers. In a special report, TCR writer Eva Herscowitz talks to proponents who say it can offer an alternative approach to traditional models of incarceration.
The study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics looked at the employment history of a sample of 51,500 federal prisoners over a four year period since their release in 2010.
New reform proposals are being looked at in Massachusetts that, if passed, would expand the list of offenses that could be expunged from someone’s juvenile record. This comes as new reform programs are becoming popular in the state, and many hope for change.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and other top state criminal justice leaders have announced the creation of a $1.1 million program aimed at connecting people leaving prison to jobs that will help them stabilize and avoid committing another crime.
American prisons are profoundly inhospitable for incarcerated women — but prison education programs can help women on the inside resist the ‘inhumanity’ of incarceration, say Kathy Boudin and Judith Clark, two formerly incarcerated women now advocating for prison reform.
A program launched in April 2020 helped smooth the transition from prison to civil society for more than 10,000 returning citizens during the pandemic. Could it be a model for post-pandemic reentry programs?
The residential and employment program on a North Carolina organic farm helps formerly incarcerated women find a new path.