In the identity theory of desistance, optimism is important to individual transformation. Yet, as the authors of this article assert, unfounded optimi...
As this report from The Health and Reentry Project (HARP) discusses, the unprecedented and growing rates of overdose deaths in the U.S. have brought n...
This report, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), summari...
Vera created this guide for colleges and corrections departments seeking to set up new programs to help program coordinators launch a college-in-priso...
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) released this white paper examining the intersection between community supervision and the human service need...
The objective of this report from Urban Institute and the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is to detail a set of practices that correctional ad...
A large proportion of people in the criminal justice system have substance addictions: a Bureau of Justice Statistics study found, for example, that n...
The long-term, sometimes lifelong, impact of a criminal record often keeps many qualified people from obtaining employment and accessing housing, hi...