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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...

Changing Systems, Changing Behavior: Five Ways Corrections Agencies Can Work to Reduce Recidivism

This brief highlights five emerging strategies that state corrections agencies have employed to implement an evidence-based approach to reducing recid...

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...

Best Practices for Successful Reentry for People Who Have Opioid Addictions

This fact sheet describes the best practices that correctional, community-based behavioral health, and probation and parole agencies can implement wit...

Second Chance Pell Experimental Sites Initiative Update

Postsecondary education in prison has been shown to contribute to successful reentry for people who have been incarcerated as well as promote public s...

Second Chance Act Spotlight: Grant Awards Help Iowa Corrections Officers Focus Efforts to Improve Reentry Outcomes

By CSG Justice Center Staff When change came to the Iowa Department of Corrections (DOC), then corrections officer Ernie Galbreath was on the groun...

Reentry Essentials: An Overview of Employment and Correctional Education

By CSG Justice Center Staff This is the first in a series of posts on aspects of successful reentry. Each post will include curated resources r...

Tennessee Woman Finds Support, Hope in 'Work Family' after Returning Home from Jail

By Ashleigh Fryer, CSG Justice CenterHaley George’s family life has taught her a lot over the last 12 years.When she was 16, she learned about the val...

Second Chance Act Grantee Takes Part in New Young Adult Correctional Program

By CSG Justice Center StaffThe Middlesex, Massachusetts, Sheriff’s Office opened a new jail unit specifically for young adults this month. Established...

Investing in Postsecondary Career Pathways

This brief from the National Skills Coalition proposes a new $500 million Career Pathways Support Fund that would allow community and technical colleg...

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