Recently, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved by a 30-1 vote the $56.4 billion Fiscal Year 2018 Commerce-Justice-Science spending bill, which provides $2.3 billion for Department of Justice state and local law enforcement and crime prevention grant programs that have been proven to reduce recidivism at the state and local level while protecting public safety. The House Appropriations Committee approved their version of the CJS bill on July 13.
Staff at the CSG Justice Center talked to three reentry programs with promising training practices about their experiences developing and delivering training to volunteer mentors.
This webinar is for corrections, workforce development, and education agencies interested in improving the employment outcomes of people with criminal records. In the webinar presenters provide an overview of a sector-based approach, give examples of successful sector-based partnerships, and
discuss opportunities for creating these types of partnerships.
In this webinar, officials from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance and National Reentry Resource Center explain the FY2017 Second Chance Act Statewide Adult Recidivism Reduction Strategic Planning Program solicitation and its application process.
This report from the Center for American Progress discusses the reforms needed to ensure people with criminal records have equitable access to the labor market and economic security.
In a new documentary called Life on Parole, FRONTLINE and The New York Times go inside one state, Connecticut, to examine its ongoing effort to rethink parole: a condition that offers a taste of freedom but comes with strict prohibitions on whom you can live with, where you can go, what time you have to be home and more.
The changes to expungement eligibility will provide meaningful relief to a significant portion of the estimated 2 million residents with criminal records, particularly men and women denied jobs, housing, and other resources and opportunities based on charges that were dismissed or disposed “not guilty,” but will remain on their criminal records.
The success of the Prison Entrepreneurship Program suggests the policy question should be: What is the most efficient and effective use of funds to keep ex-offenders in the productive workforce and creating value?
For years, states have tried to reduce prison costs by shortening sentences and diverting people to programs outside prison. The idea behind the push to help ex-offenders reenter society is that fewer barriers to getting work and adjusting to a new life will keep people from going back to prison.
