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Supporting the Well-Being of Children and Their Incarcerated Parents During and Beyond the Pandemic

The National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated at Rutgers University shares how corrections agencies have adapted and what ...

Opinion: How Federal Investments Make Us Smarter about Reducing Recidivism

By Michael Thompson Director, The Council of State Governments Justice Center Criminologists routinely lament politicians who, responding to headli...

Troubleshooting Training: How Three Programs Prepare Volunteers to Mentor People Leaving Prison and Jail

By Katy Albis, CSG Justice Center Staff at the CSG Justice Center talked to three reentry programs with promising training practices about their ex...

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...

From Jailhouse to Coffeehouse, SCA-Funded Program Supports People in Omaha During and After Incarceration

By Ashleigh Fryer, CSG Justice CenterSeveral days after Cortney was arrested on drug charges in October 2016, she called her mother from Nebraska’s Do...

Criminal Justice Reform in 2015: Year End Review

Huffington Post Criminal justice reform continued to build momentum this year within the inner sanctum of the Beltway and across the nation in a h...

With Help from Partners, Iowa Department of Corrections Tackles Statewide Recidivism

By Mai Tran, CSG Justice Center Jerry Bartruff, director of the Iowa Department of Corrections speaking at the Iowa Recidivism Summit in September, 20...

After Prison, a Fresh Start Through PACE

When Sidney Spruill, 39, returned to the community after an uninterrupted 15.5-year stint in an Indiana state prison, he knew he needed a support syst...

Female Reentry and Gender-Responsive Programming: Recommendations for Policy and Practice

The article, excerpted by the National Institute of Justice from the May/June 2021 issue of Corrections Today, offers a review of the few intervention...

Reforming A System: An Inside Perspective on How Ohio Achieved a Record-Low Recidivism Rate

By Gary C. Mohr, Director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction EDITOR'S NOTE- In late 2010, Ohio’s prisons were 33 percent overc...

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