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Implementing Specialized Caseloads to Reduce Recidivism for People with Co-Occurring Disorders

Many criminal justice leaders are beginning to look to specialized caseloads as a tool for reducing recidivism among people who have mental ...

Financially Sustaining Behavioral Health-Criminal Justice Programs

For jurisdictions implementing behavioral health-criminal justice programs to help minimize justice involvement among people with mental ill...

Justice Reinvestment in Ohio: Reducing Recidivism Through Treatment

This policy framework from The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center outlines recommendations developed as a part of a Justice R...

Resource Brief: Improving Evaluation Readiness for Reentry Programs

This resource brief summarizes key steps that reentry programs and their research partners can take to build their program’s evaluation readiness and ...

Infographic: The Second Chance Act Grantee’s Guide to Local Evaluation Milestones

Program evaluations require careful timing and planning at each stage in the SCA grant life cycle to ensure a program’s long-term success. Launching a...

Innovations in Supervision Initiatives: Grantees at a Glance

Through the Innovations in Supervision Initiative (ISI), the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance provides grants a...

Reentry Essentials: A Look at National Progress on the 10th Anniversary of the Second Chance Act

By CSG Justice Center Staff This is the second in a series of posts on aspects of successful reentry. Each post will include curated resources rela...

Second Chance Act Spotlight: Grant Awards Help Iowa Corrections Officers Focus Efforts to Improve Reentry Outcomes

By CSG Justice Center Staff When change came to the Iowa Department of Corrections (DOC), then corrections officer Ernie Galbreath was on the groun...

Risk and Needs Assessment and Race in the Criminal Justice System

By the CSG Justice Center Staff A recent ProPublica story on risk and needs assessment asked some important questions about a particular ...

Kansas Second Chance Act Grantee Helps Secure Tech Jobs for Women Returning Home from Prison

By Mai Tran, CSG Justice Center The Topeka Correctional Facility—Kansas’s only female correctional facility—is easing barriers to employment for wo...

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