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How can inmates best transition from life behind bars? Options addressed at Birmingham summit

AL.com by Kelsey SteinAs Alabama's prisons burst at the seams housing twice their capacity of inmates, many involved in the criminal justice system a...

Managing Prison Health Care Spending

This report by The Pew Charitable Trusts examines state spending on inmate health care and the factors driving costs higher. Nationwide, spending on h...

FCC Cuts High Interstate Phone Rates for Prisoners

By Mai P. Tran, Program Associate On August 9, the Federal Communications Commission voted to cut the high cost of interstate phone calls made by i...

Federal Communications Commission Prioritizes Prison Telephone Reform

By Angela Tolosa, Deputy Director for Constituent Relations, Reentry On July 10, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) held a daylong worksh...

HIV in Prisons, 2001-2010

This bulletin from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics presents national trends among state and federal prison inmates from ...

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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65 Million Need Not Apply: The Case for Reforming Criminal Background Checks for Employment

This report, from the National Employment Law Project (NELP), explores the exclusion of people with criminal records from work, which severely impacts...

The Elected Official's Toolkit for Jail Reentry

Nine million individuals are released from local jails each year, many struggling with mental illness, homelessness, and substance abuse. Jail reentry...
Clean Slate

Clean Slate: Expanding Expungements and Pardons for Non-Violent Federal Offenders

This Article, from the University of Cincinnati Law Review, argues that individuals who have served their sentences and abided by the law for some per...

Issue Brief: Public Housing Authorities and Prisoner Reentry

A growing number of people are released each year from state prison and local jails; this phenomenon, prisoner reentry, has a significant impact on ho...

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