Age

Audiences

Event Type

Media Type

News Type

Resource Type

Topics

61 resultsUse filters at left to refine your results.

Entering the Community After Incarceration — How We Can Help

Part of the Social Security Administration's Benefits after Incarceration: What You Need To Know, this brief from explains what happens...
Clean Slate

For the Record: Candid Conversations about Criminal Record Clearance—Episode 3, Bettie Kirkland

Episode 3 Bettie Kirkland, the executive director of Project Return in Nashville, joins For the Record to discuss her organizati...

July 1, 2015

Southern States Discuss Challenges and Opportunities Related to Hiring Adults with Criminal Records

By the CSG Justice Center Staff An estimated 70 million people in the U.S. have a criminal record, and the South is the region with the highest inc...

Second Chance Act Spotlight: Darius Dennis, Norfolk, Virginia

By CSG Justice Center Staff “When I got out, my kids were my number one priority.” Darius Dennis couldn’t have predicted how intertwined his...

Second Chance Month 2023 Webinar Archives

During Second Chance Month 2023, the National Reentry Resource Center, in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the Office of Juven...

National Debate on 2014 GED Changes

By Mai P. Tran, Program Associate Beginning January 1, 2014, the General Education Development (GED) test is getting a facelift: it will be academi...

SCA GRANTEE SUCCESS STORY: Cherokee Nation’s Key to Long-Term Employment after Jail

Finding jobs isn’t always the hardest part—keeping them can be. The “Coming Home” program provides solutions for both.

How Trauma-Informed Care Leads to Post-Jail Success in Pennsylvania

With the help of the Second Chance Act, addressing trauma is a “life or death” part of reentry for some in Pennsylvania.

Reentry Essentials: An Overview of Employment and Correctional Education

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

Getting Out of Student Loan Default with Fresh Start

This Fact Sheet, from Federal Student Aid an office of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), provides information on the Fresh Start Program. 

Department of Justice Logo BJA Logo

OJJDP Logo

CSG Justice Center

©NRRC 2026 — Privacy policy

The National Reentry Resource Center is operated by the Council of State Governments Justice Center and supported by Grant No. 15PBJA-23-GK-05503-MUMU awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.