FJD Launches First Online Prisoner Re-entry Resource When Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Ramy Djerassi started to preside over criminal cases, he wanted to refer ex-prisoners on probation or ...

Seattle's welcome drop in crime, as reported by the FBI earlier this month, raises an issue of more than academic interest. Criminologists, police and city officials across the country spend a lot of ...

The state is already working on helping inmates re-enter communities, but more can be done, said Megan Pfeiffer of the ...

The Blair County Prison Re-entry Coalition has finally achieved a long-awaited breakthrough: helping a Blair County Prison inmate who was eligible for release but apparently stymied for lack of a ...

WESTFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) -- Community pushback is working. A Westfield prison reentry facility for former prisoners, planned to open next month on Southampton Road, has been postponed. The ...

Joan Petersilia and Joan Turner, Implementing Rehabilitation Principles to Promote Prisoner Re-entry, in Using Social Science to Reduce Violent Offending, Joel Dvoskin, Jennifer Skeem, Ray Novaco, and ...

Lawmakers heard about the benefits of a program that helps people get housing and employme Lawmakers heard about the benefits of a program that helps people get housing and employment after being ...

The proposed budget that Gov. Bob McDonnell introduces next week will include more than $3 million toward prisoner re-entry and restoration of rights.

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