Articles

Enhancing Rural Reentry Through Housing Partnerships

Family Justice initiated the project “Housing Partnerships to Enhance Reentry Outcomes” in response to rural community corrections officers grappling with housing families involved in the criminal justice system. Time and again community corrections officers cited the...

Fact Sheet–Facilities

In 2006, more than 2,000 residential juvenile justice facilities in the United States housed more than 90,000 juvenile offenders. Although these facilities all served adjudicated youth, they differed by purpose, type, operational characteristics, and service...

Family and Children of the Incarcerated FACT SHEET

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF THE INCARCERATED FACT SHEETThe growing number of children with an incarcerated parent represents one of the most significant collateral consequences of the record prison population in the U.S. [pdf-embedder...

Federal Government resumes capital punishment

Federal Government resumes capital punishment

Federal government resumes capital punishment after nearly two decades lapse.  Attorney General William P. Barr has directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to adopt a proposed Addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol—clearing the way for the federal government...