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Second Chance Month 2023: NIJ Director Nancy La Vigne Discusses Evidence-Based Strategies for Successful Reentry

National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Director Nancy La Vigne highlights the importance of evidence-based strategies for successful reentry.

Debriefing the Second Chance Act Grantee Experience

In this video, The Council of State Governments Justice Center staff sat down with Second Chance Act (SCA) grantees to reflect on their experience of ...

The Life-Changing Impact of Reentry Housing

This video from The Council of State Governments Justice Center demonstrates that people leaving incarceration are at an elevated risk of homelessness...

Desistance from Crime: Interventions to Help Promote Desistance and Reduce Recidivism

No single criminal justice agency can promote desistance on its own. Partnerships across state, local, and federal agencies along with the support...

Recovery Capital in Reentry Plans

This video from The Council of State Government Justice Center and the Addiction Policy Forum discusses how many people in the criminal justice...

How One County Screens and Connects People in Jail to Housing

This video from the CSG Justice Center features officials from Salt Lake County, UT, who have developed a public dashboard that helps them identify pe...

How State-Led Housing Initiatives Can Break the Cycle of Criminal Justice Involvement

Improving access to safe and affordable housing is integral to any efforts aimed at reducing peoples’ involvement in the criminal justic...

SCA Grantee Discovers New Way of Policing by Asking Women Involved with the Justice System ‘What If?’

By Ashleigh Fryer, CSG Justice Center For Seattle Police Department (SPD) Detective Kim Bogucki (below), there is a stark difference between enforc...

Congressional Staff Briefing on the Second Chance Act

On April 24, 2013, the Council of State Governments Justice Center (CSG Justice Center) and the National Association of Counties sponsored a congressi...

Pew Center on the States: Reducing Recidivism Video

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...

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