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Second Chance Fellows—About the Visiting Fellows Program

The Office of Justice Programs’ (OJP) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Visiting Fellows Program invests in future and current leaders in the crimina...
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Reentry Spotlight: Understanding and Mitigating the Impacts of Juvenile and Criminal Records

The National Reentry Resource Center (NRRC) serves as a hub of information on reentry, collateral consequences, and records clearance that can assist ...

Paving the Path to Healthier Reentry: How New Medicaid Policies Can Improve Mental Health and Substance Use Support as People Return to Communities

According to this brief from The Health and Reentry Project (HARP), new Medicaid policies have great potential to benefit people with mental health co...

Medicaid’s New Role in Advancing Reentry: Key Policy Changes

As discussed in this policy fact sheet from The Health and Reentry Project (HARP), a series of policy changes are authorizing Medicaid to cover some h...

At the Intersection of Reentry and Public Safety: Using the Reentry Toolkit to Promote Safer Communities

More than 400,000 individuals reenter communities from state prisons and nearly 10 million people cycle into and out of local jails each year. When st...

Pell Grants will return to prison, but for many, college will still be out of reach

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...

Preferred Terms for Select Population Groups and Communities

This online tool from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Health Communication Gateway provides preferred nomenclature for sele...

Fact Sheet: Changes to Protect Veterans, Students, and Taxpayers and Support Incarcerated Students

In October 2022, the U.S. Department of Education published final regulations for the federal Pell Grant program that promote accountabili...

Second Chance Act Reentry Education and Employment Factsheet

This factsheet from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) provides information on the following three current Second Chance Act (SCA) investme...

Improving Educational and Vocational Outcomes for Youth Reentering Rural Communities

This brief from the Corrections and Community Engagement Technical Assistance Center (CCETAC) describes the importance of focusing on education...

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