Corrections Community

U.S. Department of Labor awards a 1.9 million dollar grant to Area Resources for Community and Human Services ( ARCHS) . The grant will help ARCHS reach out to former prisoners with job skill development, job placement, job retention and increased earnings. Read about the Female Reentry Group Effort...

From the National HIRE Network : "Although the House of Representatives was scheduled to vote on the Second Chance Act reentry legislation this week, this vote was postponed due to concern that the bill would not have enough votes to be approved. The Second Chance Act currently has 92 bipartisan...

From the National HIRE Network: "The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today, May 15th, on passage of the Second Chance Act of 2007, H.R. 1593. The Second Chance Act would provide grants to States and local areas to begin to address the need for drug and mental health treatment...