Re-Entry and Recidivism
The Re-Entry and Recidivism section focuses on the challenges and strategies for helping former inmates successfully reintegrate into society while reducing the likelihood of reoffending. This directory provides articles and resources on effective re-entry programs, support services, and policies to lower recidivism rates. Understanding these concepts is vital for correctional professionals promoting rehabilitation and public safety. For more on inmate support, explore our section on Parole and Probation.
The event at Green Rock Correctional Center featured over 25 speakers and performers, including talks from individuals currently incarcerated
“I had the honor to not be viewed as a horrible inmate, but as a firefighter,” one of the inmates said during the graduation at Central California Women’s Facility
Nevada seeks to remove slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime from its constitution; California removed slavery, but still allows involuntary servitude
Robin Ebert, Program Manager of Goodwill’s Employment First, spends her time helping put people to work and has seen the issue first hand with clients
Restored Citizens is a monthly program for ex-prisoners aimed at helping newly released convicts readjust to life outside prison walls
One hundred eighty inmates fought wildfires across the sun-dried forests and grasslands of central and eastern Oregon on Wednesday
A 10-member inmate crew grows, tends and harvests vegetables, fruit and flowers across nearly an acre of open space on the ECI compound of about 3,000 inmates
Complete community service projects that benefit various nonprofit organizations and community centered businesses of the area
Attending programs in prison often improves the success rate for individuals after prison
One Florida county is doing what it can to get veteran inmates back on their feet
In and Out Dads is a 12-week course for male inmates and teaches them how to keep in contact with their children while incarcerated
Inmates will refurbish the bikes for a bike giveaway in New Orleans
The department incorporated the Intensive Supervision Services as a part of the Division of Young Offender Parole and Reentry Services in 2011
Ladies of Leath Women’'s Correctional Institution in Greenwood has been handcrafting patriotic American flag bow ties since Tight Lines Y’all teamed with Prison Industriess
Program allows parent inmates to spend the last year of their sentence outside of jail
Southeastern Kentucky Re-Entry Task Force seeks to help inmates readjust to society as successful citizens
Mentoring program helped former inmate Jose Huerta re-enter society and avoid reoffending
The New Mexico secretary of corrections posed as an inmate for 48 hours to see what solitary confinement really felt like
Said official improperly spent nearly $80K on CDs, musicians to play for inmates
Meredith Allen, who serves as a release counselor at Deer Ridge Correctional Institution, was recognized for her dedication, innovation, leadership, role modeling, teamwork, and mentoring
Four Berks County juvenile probation drug-and-alcohol specialists work around the clock meeting with juveniles and their families to help them stay clean and sober
The eight-session program is designed to teach inmates about recognizing what trauma and abuse is and how to help themselves through educational lesson
With several severe restrictions that include 24-hour GPS monitoring, Hubbart will be allowed to rent a small house
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Thursday opened the first-ever Community Reentry and Resource Center at its jail complex
Served four years for drug trafficking before being released and starting his own business
The Oregon Department of Corrections has assigned 10 minimum-security inmates to take part in the prison system’s first legal buzz
Saginaw County Jail inmates will soon have a new way to communicate with friends and loved ones
Contact visits are currently permitted at York County Prison only by a judge’s orders, and for mothers only
November 2011 study by the Minnesota Department of Corrections concluded “visitation significantly decreased the risk of recidivism”
Rehabilitation doesn’t mean returning a ‘perfect’ person to society; here’s why we need to readjust our expectations
Corrections officials recently launched a suit donation drive with the goal of giving suits to outgoing inmates
Two days per month, two troops comprised of 19 offenders’ daughters are shuttled to the Jessup facility to bond with their mothers
The number of Oregon prison inmates given classroom education took a 12.6 percent dip from 2009 to 2013,
