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Program Helps Prisoners Re-Enter Communities

The Beaver County Times By Marsha Keefer James Hammerly, 36, called himself a “frequent flyer,” cycling in and out of jail most of his adult lif...

Toledo City Paper by Russ Axon Michael Hampton was 53 years old when he first went to prison. Arrested for a domestic violence charge and dealin...

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

The Marshall Project By Eli Hager Growing up in public housing in North Charleston, S.C., in the 1970s, David Hayward was familiar with poverty,...

Star Tribune By Glenn Howatt On his release from prison in December 2013, Gregory Odeneal had secured a place to live. He had studied his respon...

News OK By Vallery Brown Just blocks from the county jail in downtown Oklahoma City, women are making the choice and taking strides not to end u...

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

Topeka Capital-Journal By Katie Moore The Shawnee County Jail is expanding its re-entry program in an effort aimed at reducing recidivism. Ja...

Georgetown News-Graphic By Simone McAvoy Crops tended by Scott County Detention Center inmates help offset the facility’s operating costs, b...

NACo By Mary Ann Barton Andre Bethea, policy advisor for Corrections and Reentry, Justice Department, has a message for counties: “I can’t make ...