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Look Beyond Recidivism: How to Capture Your Reentry Program's Impact

This brief from RTI International and The Center for Justice Innovation (formerly The Center for Court Innovation) encourages reentry program staff an...

Resource Brief: Change Systems, Change Lives: Assessing Systems Change in Reentry Program Evaluations

Not all reentry programs or initiatives focus exclusively on individual people (clients). Many reentry initiatives also work to advance "systems chang...

Providing Robust Evidence for High-Stakes Decision-Making

This article from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) provides an overview of reentry, focusing on NIJ’s contributions to the field and identifyin...

Recidivism Rates: What You Need to Know

The rate at which people return to prison following release is a key measure of the performance of the nation’s criminal justice system,...

Surveying Participants to Strengthen Behavioral Health-Criminal Justice Programs

According to this brief from The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center, participant satisfaction surveys help behavioral health-...

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 ...

Building Capacity to Advance Local System Change for People with Behavioral Health Needs: A Snapshot of State-Led Solutions

As discussed in this brief from The Council of State Governments Justice Center, state and local jurisdictions are taking new approaches to ...

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...

Second Chance Act Q&A: Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts

By CSG Justice Center Staff Gov. Pete Ricketts meets Face to Face with corrections staff and participants of services offered ...

Second Chance Month Q&A: U.S. Representative Jim Sensenbrenner

By CSG Justice Center Staff U.S. Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI). This Second Chance Month, The Coun...

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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.