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Justice Department Announces $53 Million in Grant Awards to Reduce Recidivism Among Adults and Youth

U.S. Department of Justice The Justice Department announced today that it will award grants totaling $53 million to 45 jurisdictions, to reduce rec...

Freaky Friday, Prison-Style

The Marshall Project By Derek R. Trumbo, Sr. No one knew what we were signing up for, but we volunteered for the “re-entry-to-society simulator”...

Returning to a Real Home: Former Inmates Get Second Chance in Public Housing

The Guardian By Amy Lieberman Nearly 10 years in prison is long enough to make someone dependent on the basic necessities: food, housing and hea...

Entrepreneurship May Be Key to Cutting Prison Costs

Tallahassee Democrat By Stephany Bittar and Val Rodriguez Recidivism — the tendency for a formerly incarcerated person to re-offend and return t...

Where ‘Returning Citizens’ Find Housing after Prison

Stateline By Teresa Wiltz For those who’ve been locked up in prison for years, finding a home on the outside can be rough. Parole restrictions m...

Fewer S.C. Convicts Returning to Prison, Study Finds

The Post and Courier By Glenn Smith When inmates finished serving time in Columbia's state prisons, their first encoun...

Life After ‘17 to Life’

The New York Times By Joseph Rodriguez and Nell Bernstein In California, known for decades as one of the nation’s most avid jailers, the traject...

Parole Reforms Promise Prison Cost Savings

The Times Herald “He who opens a school door, closes a prison,” said French author Victor Hugo. Perhaps it’s not an apples and oranges compariso...

Milwaukee Nonprofit Offers Ex-Offenders Support, Resources

The Associated Press By Grace Connatser, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service Caliph Muab'El entered the court system at 15 years old and was...

City Program Guides Those Released from Prison

Miami Herald By Shahid Abdul-Karim, New Haven Register When city residents are released from prison, Earl Bloodworth is often there to pick them...

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