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April 26, 2021

Wisconsin Program Helps People Find Jobs After Prison

This blog post discusses how Wisconsin is taking strides to provide job support for people who have been incarcerated as means to reduce recidivism by...

Prisoner Reentry Program in New Jersey Gets $1M Grant to Help End 'Tragic Cycle' of Killings

NJ.com By Noah Cohen Officials on Thursday announced a Newark prisoner reentry program that will focus on providing services, including employme...

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...

Hawaii Prison Population Drops 5 Percent

Honolulu Civil Beat By Chad Blair Hawaii's prison population has dropped 5 percent since July 2012, a figure that includes a 12 percent reductio...

Prisoners Start New Lives Fighting Fires in Arizona

Washington Examiner By Naomi Lim Arizona is starting a program designed to help newly released prisoners assimilate into their communities ...

Opinion: The Financial Knowledge Inmates Need to Reenter Society

Governing By John Wetzel and Robin L. Wiessmann One of the many challenges facing corrections officials and policymakers across the c...

Iowa Officials: Too Many Ex-Offenders Return to Prison

The Des Moines Register By Kathy A. Bolten Deb Theeler spent 52 months in prison in the early 2000s — only to find out when she was paroled that...

Environmental Programs Grow a Better Prison System

GreenBiz By Sarah Hicks The Prison Policy Initiative creates a yearly pie chart that details the makeup of the U.S. prison system. In ...

Student Creates Group for Formerly Incarcerated Students

Daily Trojan By Erica Hur After he was released from prison in January 2014, Aris Mangasarian found it difficult to find the resources to apply ...

Attorneys: Re-Entry in Indian Country Is Crucial to Reducing Recidivism

Missoulian By Vince Devlin POLSON – Michael Batista, the director of the Montana Department of Corrections, likes the story, even if it wasn...

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