Child support programs and courts across the country are connecting noncustodial parents to job services as an alternative to jail. At a relatively lo...
On April 24, 2013, the Council of State Governments Justice Center (CSG Justice Center) and the National Association of Counties sponsored a congressi...
According to new statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics on trends in admissions to prison and releases, the majority of states reduced both ...
States spend $50 billion a year on corrections, yet four out of ten prisoners wind up back behind bars within three years of release. In this short vi...
A broad menu of reforms, which some localities have deemed “fair-chance” laws, incorporate “ban the box” policies, which delay inquiry into a criminal...
Uploaded on Jun 18, 2010 A.T. Wall, director of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, and Andres Idarraga, a student at Yale Law School who was ...
Approximately half of all the inmates put on parole in the U.S. end up violating the terms of their release and are sent back to prison. But across th...