State Legislation

(CA) S.B. 943

Reentry Facility

This law authorizes the use of the Northern California Women’s Facility as a reentry facility to house individuals who are incarcerated, parole violators, or parolees pending revocation of parole, as specified.

Learn more at
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_943&sess=CUR&house=B&author=machado

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Public Housing Authorities and Prisoner Re-Entry

A growing number of people are released each year from state prison and local jails; this phenomenon, prisoner reentry, has a significant impact on housing programs administered by PHAs, including public housing, the Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8), and other programs.