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This resource brief, from the National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC), is intended to support juvenile defense advocacy by providing an overview of s...
This month-long blog series from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency features entries from stakeholders, government officials, and service p...
This brief from The Pew Charitable Trusts discusses the 2011 Kentucky Public Safety and Offender Accountability Act, which includes a mandatory reentr...
Each year, about 640,000 individuals are released from state and federal prisons and millions cycle through local jails. When reentry fails, the...
National Forum Brings Together 13 States Competing for “Statewide Recidivism Reduction” Grants Dr. Gary Dennis, Senior Policy Advisor a...
By Mai P. Tran, Program Associate In October 2013, 104 government agencies and nonprofit organizations across the country were awarded grants throu...
On Wednesday, November 13, 2013, the Second Chance Reauthorization Act was introduced in the Senate by Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Patrick Leahy (...
According to the authors of this brief, from the South Carolina Commission of Indigent Defense, Federal and state laws impose a range of collater...
This month marks the five-year anniversary of the Second Chance Act, the landmark legislation authorizing federal grants to support programs aimed at ...