The Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) is launching a pilot program to help states improve the pathways from pre-release postsecondary education through...
Through the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Visiting Fellows Program, BJA invests in future and current leaders in the criminal justice field to ad...
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...
Voices of Reentry uplifts the stories of youth, family members, and practitioners impacted by youth reentry programs. Submissions were gathered from t...
As outlined by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), it has been common practice in the United States to make people convicted of a fe...
This brief from The Council of State Governments Justice Center provides an overview of current and best practices, challenges, and solutions for stre...
The FAFSA Simplification Act (the Act), signed into law in December 2020, restored Pell Grant eligibility to individuals who are confined or incarce...
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...
This online tool from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Health Communication Gateway provides preferred nomenclature for sele...