Student loan defaults are a big barrier to prison education. But the government has offered a “fix” that will significantly increase access to college-in-prison programs over the next few years.
Browsing: Prisoner Reentry
A 25-year-old drug arrest derailed one man’s search for a place to live.
A recent report ranked Illinois first in the nation in providing post-incarceration resources. But barriers to successful reentry are still formidable, say ex-prisoners. “It must be really bad for other states,” joked one.
More counties are following up on legislation signed last June to expand the criteria for counties to establish polling places in jail.
No matter how many “good conduct” testimonials they get, ex-incarcerees are still defined by the worst things they’ve done—and by language that refuses to acknowledge the possibility of personal growth and individual change, writes the Deputy CEO of the Fortune Society.
A comprehensive incarceration-to-employment strategy launched by the White House is a first-ever collaboration between the Department of Justice and the Labor Department.
Boudin, a member of the radical Weather Underground, was imprisoned for 22 years for her role in the fatal 1981 holdup of a Brink’s armored truck. The mother of current San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, she had worked in programs helping ex-incarcerees reenter civilian life after her release on parole.
Exposure to the Achieving Change Through Values-Based Behavior program, or ACTV, resulted in participants having about half the rate of violent and non-violent charges, according to an Iowa State University study.
Sloppy math mistakes and other flaws in an algorithm used by the DOJ have put thousands of prisoners in the wrong risk category and treated them differently, in part because of their ethnic or racial backgrounds.
Formerly incarcerated mental health care providers are supplementing traditional resources for those still in prison—with mutually beneficial results.