Tag archive for ‘re-entry’
Florida’s Cash-Register Justice Stalls Re-entry Success
Florida’s practice of financing its criminal justice system with fees from the indigent creates a vicious cycle of debt for ex-offenders that threatens their successful re-entry into society, according to a new Brennan Center report released on March 23, 2010.
Since 1996, the study shows, the Sunshine state has added more than 20 new categories [...]
Recidivism Cure: Change Inmates’ Hearts, Inside Out
by Bill Glass
Founder, Champions for Life
Best known in the sports world as a former four-time All-Pro football player with the NFL’s Cleveland Browns, Bill Glass has continued to gain worldwide recognition over the decades as Founder and leader of the Champions for Life prison ministry. He is author of 11 books, including “Crime: Our [...]
Congress Set to Dump “Second Chance for Ex-Offenders Act”
By Thomas Kinney
The prisons are full, recidivism rate 65-70 percent, system is broken, can’t afford it any more, something must be done; we need judicial reform and a just released study confirms that the good old US of A has the highest prison population rate in the world, 756 per 100,000 of the national population. [...]
Two Reentry Programs Prove Local Efforts Cut Recidivism
Santa Barbara County, CA
Every year 1000 to 1400 offenders are released back to Santa Barbara County from California state prisons. Most have no home, no job, and no skills, and no hope of making it. The vast majority have serious addiction problems; many are mentally ill. The state gives them a [...]
Hearing: National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009
United States Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) is probably the most outspoken advocate of prison reform and recidivism reduction in Congress. On March 26, 2009, Sen. Webb introduced a bill in the Senate entitled “The National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009.” This Act if passed will create a blue-ribbon commission to look at [...]
State Considers Cutting Re-Entry Program
From the blog ctnewsjunkie.com
Connecticut’s Governor Rell has proposed eliminating the successful “Stride” re-enty program aimed at saving the state $600,000 over the next two years in order to grapple with an $8 billion deficit. But ex-offenders, lawmakers and advocates are urging caution, noting that state legislature hearings on the criminal justice system revealed [...]
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