Second Chance Month
April 2023

Second Chance Month 2023 New

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Collateral Consequences
As this brief from the Prison Policy Initiative explores, most people in jail are legally eligible to vote, but in practice, they cannot. This “de fac...
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Education & Employment
This report from the Vera Institute of Justice examines state financial aid for incarcerated students. Incarcerated students who are unable to ac...
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Family Engagement
The objective of this report from Urban Institute and the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is to detail a set of practices that correctional ad...
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Behavioral Health
A large proportion of people in the criminal justice system have substance addictions: a Bureau of Justice Statistics study found, for example, that n...
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Behavioral Health
This fact sheet describes the best practices that correctional, community-based behavioral health, and probation and parole agencies can implement wit...
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Family Engagement
This framework document synthesizes lessons learned about promising practices, and it provides information about the context surrounding children and ...
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Education & Employment
This brief from the Vera Institute of Justice was developed in response to President Biden's 2022 Infrastructure Bill. As the brief asserts, j...
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Education & Employment
This report from the Vera Institute of Justice is a summary of the Pell Reinstatement regulations and requirements developed by the U.S. Department of...
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Youth & Young Adults
This video from Debt Free Justice shares the experiences of young people who were introduced into the juvenile justice system due to court debts. ...