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Eligible, but excluded: A guide to removing the barriers to jail voting

As this brief from the Prison Policy Initiative explores, most people in jail are legally eligible to vote, but in practice, they cannot. This “de fac...

Improving Responses to People Who Have Co-occurring Mental Illnesses and Substance Use Disorders in Jails

People with co-occurring mental illnesses and substance use disorders—also known simply as co-occurring disorders—have complex needs tha...

Changing Systems, Changing Behavior: Five Ways Corrections Agencies Can Work to Reduce Recidivism

This brief highlights five emerging strategies that state corrections agencies have employed to implement an evidence-based approach to reducing recid...

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...

Restoring Promise Expands Prison Reform to Three New States

Arnold VenturesBy Evan MintzThe Vera Institute of Justice and the MILPA Collective announced recently an expansion of Restoring Promise, a program tha...

Second Chance Act Q&A: Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts

By CSG Justice Center Staff Gov. Pete Ricketts meets Face to Face with corrections staff and participants of services offered ...

Second Chance Month Q&A: U.S. Representative Jim Sensenbrenner

By CSG Justice Center Staff U.S. Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI). This Second Chance Month, The Coun...

Second Chance Month Q&A: U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy

U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) cosponsored the Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2018, providing funding to more than 850 reentry-focused grant...

Second Chance Month Q&A: Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson

By CSG Justice Center Staff Gov. Asa Hutchinson at the 2019 State of the State address. Photo courtesy the Arkansas Governor's...

Second Chance Month Q&A: Ohio Governor Mike DeWine

By CSG Justice Center Staff Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, then the state's attorney general, meets Face to Face with corrections wor...

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