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Looking Beyond Conviction History: Recommendations for Public Housing Authority Admissions Policies

This fact sheet provides eight recommendations for public housing authorities to rethink limits on public housing for people with criminal conviction ...

Fact Sheet: Looking Beyond Conviction History: Recommendations for Public Housing Authority Admissions Policies

Safe, affordable housing is essential for the millions of people released from U.S. jails and prisons each year. But most public housing aut...

Financially Sustaining Behavioral Health-Criminal Justice Programs

For jurisdictions implementing behavioral health-criminal justice programs to help minimize justice involvement among people with mental ill...

Implementing Specialized Caseloads to Reduce Recidivism for People with Co-Occurring Disorders

Many criminal justice leaders are beginning to look to specialized caseloads as a tool for reducing recidivism among people who have mental ...

Justice Reinvestment in Ohio: Reducing Recidivism Through Treatment

This policy framework from The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center outlines recommendations developed as a part of a Justice R...

What Prisoners Need to Know

This brief from the Social Security Administration provides practical information about eligibility for and treatment of Social Securit...

Eligible, but excluded: A guide to removing the barriers to jail voting

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...

Improving Responses to People Who Have Co-occurring Mental Illnesses and Substance Use Disorders in Jails

People with co-occurring mental illnesses and substance use disorders—also known simply as co-occurring disorders—have complex needs tha...

Innovations in Supervision Initiatives: Grantees at a Glance

Through the Innovations in Supervision Initiative (ISI), the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance provides grants a...

Restoring Promise Expands Prison Reform to Three New States

Arnold VenturesBy Evan MintzThe Vera Institute of Justice and the MILPA Collective announced recently an expansion of Restoring Promise, a program tha...

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The National Reentry Resource Center is operated by the Council of State Governments Justice Center and supported by Grant No. 15PBJA-23-GK-05503-MUMU awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.