Through the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Visiting Fellows Program, BJA invests in future and current leaders in the criminal justice field to ad...
People who were formerly incarcerated face a web of laws that Marlon Chamberlain describes as "permanent punishments." Marlon is an advocate for peo...
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...
National Institute of Justice Director Nancy La Vigne and the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics Alex Piquero discuss important topics, prog...
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...
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...