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SCA GRANTEE SUCCESS STORY: Supporting Women Before (and Long After) Jail Yields Remarkable Results

In a city with a 76 percent recidivism rate, just 8 percent of the women in Baltimore’s PIVOT reentry program reoffend after leaving jail or prison—an...

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 Week 2021: Getting Involved for Education and Employment

We all have a responsibility—as a federal agency, as partners across the country working in reentry, and as citizens—to understand why r...
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Wanted: Accurate FBI Background Checks for Employment

This report from the National Employment Law Project (NELP), discusses inaccuracies in FBI records and calls on the FBI to ensure that records are acc...

Register Now for Second Chance Month 2023 Webinars

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

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