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Nebraska inmates build skills through manufacturing jobs
Cornhusker State Industries "is a $12 million a year business that employs about 12 percent of the state prison population, provides services for the prison system and markets products such as furniture and houses to government and nonprofit agencies. The first goal of CSI is training, teaching work habits and skills to help inmates succeed in the outside world. Nebraska's overall recidivism rate is about 25 percent. That means one-fourth of all inmates return to prison within three years. But fewer than 15 percent of people working in CSI for at least six months come back within three years."
County aims to keep former offenders out of jail
"King County Council members have called for County Executive Dow Constantine to develop a plan to help people transition from jail to society, and to prevent them from re-offending."
Project offers ex-convicts a fresh start
"Nacogdoches County could have the pilot program other areas look to when beginning prisoner reentry programs, Nacogdoches County Commissioner Reggie Cotton said. Commissioners approved a resolution supporting the reentry program during the last commissioners court meeting, which will help the program secure grants to fund the project."
Inmates study for the future
In Tulsa, Project Reconnect, a Girl Scouts Beyond Bars program, offers such training as welding, hospitality and computer courses to incarcerated mothers. The yearlong re-entry program is sponsored by the George Kaiser Family Foundation and aims to successfully reunite the women with their children.
Summer camp in prison helps kids know inmate dads
"Hope House, a Washington-based nonprofit group, organizes these camps and other programs to strengthen the bond between children and their imprisoned fathers. Throughout the year, they facilitate face-to-face video calls between the fathers and their families hours apart from each other. They also record inmates reading books aloud and then mail those audio tapes to the kids. Another program called Girl Scouts Beyond Bars offers similar opportunities for daughters to communicate with their imprisoned mothers."
R.I. ex-convicts find job search is difficult
"Getting businesses to hire ex-cons wasn’t an easy sell in a good economy, probation officials and social service agencies say. And with some 69,000 Rhode Islanders unemployed, it’s gotten harder."
Housing program for ex-cons not working as intended, some lawmakers say
"As Texas prison programs go, this one was tiny. Just a few hundred ex-cons would be eligible for housing vouchers those who had been approved for parole but were stuck behind bars because they had no place to live, either because their families didn't want them or they had no place to go. It was also supposed to save taxpayers money, since the housing would cost less than a $47-a-day prison bed. Instead, state records show, the 8-month-old Temporary Housing Assistance Program appears to have accomplished just the opposite. In some cases, parolees have been moved into state-rented homes from less expensive halfway houses."
Mobile Career Center moves from corrections sites to neighborhoods
"The mobile center is making its way into some of Baltimore County's most economically distressed neighborhoods, after it spent its early months making the rounds of county parole and probation divisions and the detention center to help ex-convicts with re-entry. County officials said people with convictions on their records face mounting difficulties, but many other residents in areas with high unemployment can also take advantage of the service."
San Mateo County program helps high-risk parolees return to society
"As hard as it is to find a job right now, it's even harder if you're an addict and a parolee. Seventeen men and women considered high-risk parolees celebrated Thursday the 90-day and 180-day marks in their freedom from jail and prison, having so far successfully navigated a new federally funded county re-entry program called Achieve 180, named for what organizers hope will be a complete turnaround in the lives of the program's participants."
Parole Violations Feed Prison's Revolving Door
"Woods is just one of a group – tens of thousands strong – of ex-convicts paroled in California every year. They often face bleak prospects for employment and debilitating drug addictions. About 400 reside in Richmond, a city long plagued by crime. More than 70 percent of the time, they prove unable to comply with the terms of their parole."
When offenders leave jail, they need help starting over
"Last year the Minnesota Department of Corrections released 7,994 offenders from state prisons. Each month approximately 300 people are released from the Olmsted County Adult Detention Center (ADC). Those are scary numbers, because the statistics tell us the vast majority of convicted criminals are not willing or able to change their ways and thus will return to crime, be arrested, and once again incarcerated. The recidivism rate in Olmsted County alone is 47 percent in a five-year period. In other words, almost half of the people who are arrested and brought to the ADC will be released and arrested again within five years. The impact on the crime victims, and the cost to all of us who must fund and support the legal system, is phenomenal."
CORI changes become the law
Governor Deval Patrick signed into law yesterday a long-sought overhaul of the state’s criminal records system that proponents say makes Massachusetts the first state to ban most employers from inquiring about applicants’ criminal history on job applications.
In tough economy, even fewer employers eye felons to hire
"For many people, the threat of job loss has been a major cause of anxiety during the Great Recession. Certain groups of people, such as those with decades of experience or who are older, have reported having a harder time getting back into the workforce. Another group having trouble is those who have been convicted of misdemeanors and felonies at some point in their lives."
Tax benefits available for those who hire from Nevada Department of Corrections re-entry program
The Nevada Department of Corrections works to provide re-entry services for inmates who are leaving the correctional facility and re-acclimating themselves into society. The re-entry program provides elective program services to inmates to help prepare them for the transition back into the local community. Nevada business owners can help support this program while also receiving tax incentives by employing individuals leaving the department’s Casa Grande Transitional Housing facility.
Successful offender reentry program in San Diego
The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) recently released its third annual report on the San Diego Prisoner Reentry Program.
The key program components are based on best practices and include conducting screenings and assessments and providing case management and services to meet identified needs.
The report describes the program implementation, outlines the research methodology, and presents preliminary findings from the process and impact evaluation.
Thus far the process evaluation has revealed the following: good communication and strong collaboration has been the key to successful program implementation, participants’ needs were assessed within the expected timeframe, over three‐quarters (78%) of the treatment group participated in programming while in prison and over two‐thirds (69%) received services in the community during the six months following prison release.
Helping prisoners at 92, former Gov. Leader is role model
"Five or six times a year, the 92-year-old former governor walks through the heavy security of one our state correctional institutions and congratulates prisoners for making it through a program that he largely funds. It’s called Second Chance Ministries and teaches prisoners about leadership, preparation for returning to the outside world and the Bible. Graduates can become licensed ministers if they go through the rigorous program, where Leader says 'there is no fooling around; we take it seriously.' His program has touched and changed thousands of lives."
Corrections director says focus on life after prison
"Virginia spends too much money locking up nonviolent offenders and not enough on programs to help criminals transition into life after prison, Department of Corrections director Gene M. Johnson said yesterday. Speaking at a statewide conference on prisoner re-entry, Johnson said the state should stop doling out lengthy prison sentences to nonviolent criminals and those with drug convictions and instead focus on locking away violent criminals -- and then helping them successfully re-enter society when their prison sentence ends."
Howard Husock: Making Second Chance Act work for more former prisoners
"Last week, the same day that the Senate Judiciary Committee began considering whether and how to extent the Second Chance Act -- designed to better the odds that the 700,000 prisoners released annually will not wind up back behind bars -- the Justice Department's inspector general released a pointed reminder about the limits of the program's good intentions."
New system to improve prisoner tracking
"The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is adopting a new data processing system to track inmates from the day they enter prison through the completion of their probation or parole."
Md. probation chief tries to curb crime through supervision
"Keeping former prisoners from committing -- or being victims of -- violent crimes is all about putting 'supervision at the forefront of their brains,' says Patrick McGee, Maryland's director of probation and parole. To do that, the state's violence prevention initiative places under a strict supervision program ex-offenders deemed at risk for involvement in violent crimes. The initiative turned three years old this summer and next month will receive an innovation award from the National Criminal Justice Association."