Adult Pre-Release Handbook

Reentry

DOWNLOAD This guide will help offenders in determining where they are at in terms of preparing for release and in creating a plan to succeed once they leave prison. This handbook contains ten chapters: identification; life skills; housing; education; transportation;...

Anger Management

Reentry

DOWNLOAD Changed for Good has been created with the help of an earlier Anger Management curriculum and piloted for several years in a jail.  Changed for Good is biblically-based, skill-based and implements evidence-based practices established by the National Institute...

Anger Management Changed for Good: Student Guide

Reentry

DOWNLOAD Changed for Good has been created with the help of an earlier Anger Management curriculum and piloted for several years in a jail. Changed for Good is biblically-based, skill-based and implements evidence-based practices established by the National Institute...

Collateral Consequences June 2019

Reentry

More than 620,000 people are released from federal and state prisons each year and return to their communities. This substantial number is nearly equivalent to the population of Boston annually. While these and other individuals have already served their prison or...

Enhancing Rural Reentry Through Housing Partnerships

Reentry

DOWNLOAD 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...

Intro to Board Policies Manual

Reentry

DOWNLOAD A Board Policies Manual (BPM) is the “one voice” of a board of directors that defines for the organization and for itself what on-going policies make the most sense today. It is updated regularly (usually at every meeting) because the world changes. It’s...

Jail Reentry Round Table Initiative

Reentry

DOWNLOAD Over the past five years, there has been substantial momentum around the issue of prisoner reentry. It is now well known that some 650,000 prisoners return from state and federal prisons each year, facing a myriad of challenges and high recidivism rates. At...

Keys to Federal Benefits Access

Reentry

DOWNLOAD Increasingly, policy makers and the media have urged reconsideration of the size of our prison population and examination of alternatives to incarceration, particularly for those convicted of less serious offenses. Many, including Governor Cuomo, have urged...

Managing the Challenges of Sex Offender Reentry

Reentry

DOWNLOAD The release of individuals from prisons to communities is a practice that has long been fraught with systemic challenges and one which evokes considerable public concern. As a result, inrecent years, prisoner reentry has become the focus of a number of...

Mythbusters

Reentry

Download Here Reentry MythBusters are a series of fact sheets intended to clarify existing federal policies that affect formerly incarcerated individuals and their families. Because reentry intersects with health and housing, education and employment, family, faith,...

Reentry 2015 Issues–Future

Reentry

DOWNLOAD In July 2015, President Barack Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal correctional institution. Just two months later, Pope Francis met with men and women incarcerated in Philadelphia’s largest correctional facility. Perhaps it is not a...

Reentry Matters: Second Chance Act 10th Anniversary Edition

Reentry

DOWNLOAD The National Reentry Resource Center and the CSG Justice Center released. This toolkit is designed to “serve as a roadmap for identifying issues related to the education of delinquent youth during placement and when they are released and reintegrated...

Reentry Report Alaska

Reentry

DOWNLOAD The ReEntry Manual includes nine Steps to successful reentry, and is designed to function as both a teacher’s guide and inmate workbook, with space to take notes, checklists to gauge reentry readiness and worksheets to create resumes, budgets and spending...

Reentry Skills Building Handbook

Reentry

DOWNLOAD Remember that planning for your release needs to start immediately, not just a week before you are scheduled to leave. Reentry starts on your first day of incarceration and everything you do during your incarceration should be focused on increasing your...

Reentry TIP SHEETS for Women

Reentry, Women

DOWNLOAD The series, Reentry TIPSHEETS for Women, is designed to help correctional staff and other supportive stakeholders, who are working with women during the pre-release planning process and during reentry to address their needs as they transition to the...

Spiritual Growth Reentry Tip Sheet

Reentry

DOWNLOAD Spiritual Growth Tipsheet is designed to help ministry workers who are serving men and women during the pre-released planning process and during reentry to address their spiritual needs as they transition to the community.   Spiritual-Growth-Tipsheet...

Successful Reentry: A Community-Level Analysis

Reentry

DOWNLOAD The following report details how various factors significantly affect successful reentry,how existing community-based organizations tailor interventions to address those factors, andprovides recommendations for the best practices community-based reentry...

The Cattle Call of Reentry: Not all Processes are Equal

Reentry

DOWNLOAD With budget crunches capturing the attention of state and local governments,the affordability of long prison (jail) sentences is being questioned. Stateshave taken daring steps to use early release tactics, with the expectations thatsuch moves will both save...

The Elected Official’s Toolkit for Jail Reentry

Reentry

DOWNLOAD Every year, millions of people are released from incarceration, and the vast majority—about 9 million individuals—exit from local jails. Within this population, recidivism rates are high, resulting in a damaging cycle of incarceration, release, and...