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The Office of Justice Programs’ (OJP) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Visiting Fellows Program invests in future and current leaders in the crimina...
This Fact Sheet, from Federal Student Aid an office of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), provides information on the Fresh Start Program. 
Originally coined by former director of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Jeremy Travis, "reentry" is the process by which a person in corr...
This brief from the Evaluation and Sustainability Training and Technical Assistance (ES TTA) team explores essential considerations for designing and ...
Voices of Reentry uplifts the stories of youth, family members, and practitioners impacted by youth reentry programs. Submissions were gathered from t...
This brief from The Council of State Governments Justice Center provides an overview of current and best practices, challenges, and solutions for stre...
The FAFSA Simplification Act (the Act), signed into law in December 2020, restored Pell Grant eligibility to individuals who are confined or incarce...
This online article from USA Today discusses the expansion of Pell Grants that were eliminated in the 1994 crime bill for people in prison and ended t...
The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) is the primary grantmaking component of the U.S. Department of Justice and houses the Department’s science a...
In October 2022, the U.S. Department of Education published final regulations for the federal Pell Grant program that promote accountabili...