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When Pre-Release Optimism Meets Post-Release Reality: Understanding Reentry Success Through a Longitudinal Framework Assessing Pre- and Post-Release Perceptions

In the identity theory of desistance, optimism is important to individual transformation. Yet, as the authors of this article assert, unfounded optimi...

Breaking Down Barriers: Lessons from Housing and Justice System Collaborations

Affordable housing is fundamental to successful reentry. To help policymakers build sustainable pathways to housing, The Council of State Governm...

Building Connections to Housing During Reentry: Results from a Questionnaire on DOC Housing Policies, Programs, and Needs

The Council of State Governments Justice Center, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, Bur...
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The Frontiers of Dignity: Clean Slate and Other Criminal Record Reforms in 2022

This report from the Collateral Consequences Resource Center (CCRC) explores key developments in reintegration reforms during 2022. The body of the re...

Health Care Transitions for Individuals Returning to the Community from a Public Institution: Promising Practices Identified by the Medicaid Reentry Stakeholder Group

This report, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), summari...

Community Supervision, Housing Insecurity, and Homelessness

This article, published by The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS), presents evidence-based approaches to improving housing strat...

Coordination to Reduce Barriers to Reentry: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 and Beyond

According to this report to Congress from the Reentry Coordination Council, each year, about 600,000 people in the United States enter prisons; and ...

Peer Support as a Social Capital Strategy for Programs Serving Individuals Reentering from Incarceration and Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence or Human Sex Trafficking

This report from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)&nbsp...

FY 2020 Report to the Committees on Appropriations Formerly Incarcerated Women and Reentry: Trends, Challenges, and Recommendations for Research and Policy

This report from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) responds to the U.S. House of Representatives' Committees on Appropriations directive to cond...

United States Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland: Reentry Resource Guide by County

This resource is part of The Federal Interagency Reentry Council's A Record of Progress and a Roadmap for the Future. Returning citiz...

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