Reentry Resources from the Justice Center
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Reentry Partnerships: A Guide for States & Faith-Based and Community Organizations The Justice Center, with funding support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice and the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, U.S. Department of Labor, developed a guide that offers practical recommendations for how state government officials and community-based service providers can better use limited resources to help people released from prisons and jails successfully and safely rejoin neighborhoods and families. Download the guide here. Read more about the Justice Center's Reentry Partnerships project. |
Other products and publications:
- Planning and Assessing a Law Enforcement Reentry Strategy: Toolkit
- Improving Assessment Processes in Corrections Settings: Web-Based Tool
- Federal Benefits online tools: Federal Benefits Comparison Chart | Keys to Federal Benefit Access
- Repaying Debts: Report summary | Full report | Online Guide
- Interactive Reentry Housing Options Chart
- Ensuring Timely Access to Medicaid and SSI/SSDI for People with Mental Illness Released from Prison: Four Case Studies (pdf)
- Homelessness and Prisoner Reentry (pdf)
- How and Why Medicaid Matters for People with Serious Mental Illness Released from Jail (pdf)
- Public Housing Authorities and Prisoner Reentry (pdf)
- Report of the Re-Entry Policy Council
- Report of the Re-Entry Policy Council Preview (pdf)
Coming Soon
- A Guide to Improving Assessment Processes in Corrections Settings. Will provide a framework for corrections administrators to consider in developing strategies for improving their assessment procedures. This guide will accompany the interactive Assessment and Risks/Needs Determination Tool, which highlights examples of common instruments and lessons from the corrections field about assessment procedures in various jurisdictions.
Read more about the RPC's project on Improving Assessment Processes.
- Sex Offender Housing Guide. Assists state and local government officials seeking options for housing people convicted of committing a sex offense who have been incarcerated and released to the community.
- State Strategies for Expanding Housing Opportunities for Adults Released from Prison and Jail. Offers three approaches that criminal justice agencies and their partners can use to meet the housing needs of people re-entering the community from prison or jail: housing placement and rental assistance, housing development, and high-stakes neighborhood improvement.