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Explainer: Creating Housing Opportunities for People with Complex Health Needs Leaving Incarceration

According to this article from The Council of State Governments Justice Center, with an affordable housing crisis across the U.S., it is i...

Explainer: Building Effective Partnerships with Continuums of Care to Increase Housing Options for People Leaving Prisons and Jails

This article from The Council of State Governments Justice Center (CSG) answers frequently asked questions about Continuum of Cares (CoCs') unique rol...

Opening Doors, Returning Home: How Public Housing Authorities Across the Country Are Expanding Access for People with Conviction Histories

This brief shares examples and lessons gleaned from Vera’s varied and continued experience through the Opening Doors: Safely Increasing Access to Publ...

Voting Rights in the Era of Mass Incarceration: A Primer

This brief from The Sentencing Project details that, in 2020, 5.2 million Americans were prohibited from voting due to laws that disenfranchise citize...

HUD Actions to Address Reentry Housing Needs and Increase Public Safety

On June 23, 2021, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia L. Fudge outlined actions that the Department is taking to i...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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