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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...

Reentry Research at NIJ: Providing Robust Evidence for High-Stakes Decision-Making

Over the past several decades, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has been a leader in the study of reentry. In the 21st century, several federal...

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...

The Need for a Helping Hand

Portland Tribune By Peter Korn Robert Lyday never even made it past the sidewalk in front of the Old Town Greyhound bus station. He’d been re...

RNR Simulation Tool Gives Probation, Parole Officers a Clinical Take on Reentry in Louisiana

By CSG Justice Center Staff People who are returning to Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, from two correctional facilities in the state are rec...

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...

Reentry Essentials: Reducing Recidivism and Improving Other Outcomes for Youth and Young Adults

This is the fourth in a series of posts on aspects of successful reentry. Each post will include curated resources related to the featured reentry top...

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...

Lead Case Planner: Correctional Agency

The agency that takes the lead in case planning and case management, referred to here as lead case planner, can vary based on several factors, such as...

CSG Justice Center, Chief Probation Officers of California Launch New Policy Fellowship

By the NRRC Staff With more than 200,000 people in California currently in state or local correctional institutions, “reentry” is an issue of uniqu...

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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.