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Creating a Workforce Development Culture To Reduce Reincarceration

In the mid-1990s, offender reentry gained visibility as an important public policy issue. At that time, organizations such as the U.S. Department of Education (ED), the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and the National Institute of Justice began exploring offender workforce development strategies...

Posted to Offender Employment (Weblog) by Scott on 11-09-2009
creating a green halfway house

I am interested in learning about the process to make a halfway house more environmentally-friendly. Is anyone aware of halfway houses that are already doing this, or have some knowledge about the process (with some extent of experience in building or working at a halfway house)?

Posted to Community-Based Corrections (Forum) by ICCA on 11-05-2009
Can recedivism be reduced to below 10%?

Read the article, "Prisoner Recidivism - a genuine solution to an American Epidemic" at: http://web.me.com/davidjkoch/davidjkoch/Daves_Blog/Daves_Blog.html

Posted to Correctional Research Roundtable (Forum) by Dave Koch on 10-25-2009
Offender Mandatory Savings

We are looking at our procedure and would like to enhance offenders’ required savings in order to better assist offenders with reentry needs. To this end, we are asking for feedback on what other states are doing in this area.

Posted to General Topics (Forum) by aschristmann on 10-21-2009
Second Chance Act, 2009-10

I understand that funding has been continued into 2010 for the Second Chance Act. Anyone have info on deadlines, or anything else important? Thx

Posted to General Topics (Forum) by WARD ALLEN on 10-04-2009
ARCHS IN ST. LOUIS TO LAUNCH NEW MENTORING PROGRAM VIA SECOND CHANCE ACT FUNDING

ARCHS AWARDED $265,944 IN FEDERAL SECOND CHANCE ACT FUNDING FOR MENTORING PROGRAM ST. LOUIS, MO: Area Resources for Community and Human Services (ARCHS) has been awarded $265,944 in funding by the U.S. Department of Justice to create a pre and post prison release mentoring program to serve non-violent...

Posted to General Topics (Forum) by ARCHS on 10-01-2009
MO-DOC Motivational Interviewing Skill Builder

Motivational interviewing techniques have proven themselves beneficial in criminal justice applications. Used with success by substance abuse practitioners to open the lines of effective communications with their clients, motivational therapy techniques have a proven track record of success. This instruction...

Posted to Share a File (FileGallery) by Ed Yahnig on 07-28-2009
NIC's 'Online/Kiosk Employment Application Simulation' Used in New York's Digital Reentry Programs

The summer issue of New York State Department of Correctional Services' quarterly newsletter , DOCS Today , includes a summary of their expanding use of digital reentry programming. See page 8. Computer labs (not internet accessible) are used to both deliver services and increase computer literacy...

Posted to Offender Employment (Weblog) by llinke on 07-27-2009
Re: Reentry Research Continues To Report Out

The Urban Institute has now added a fourth Houston report, One Year Out : Tracking the Experiences of Male Prisoners Returning to Houston, Texas. They have also added a press release announcing the four reports.

Posted to Correctional Research Roundtable (Forum) by Eileen Conway on 06-24-2009
New Research Reports on Reentry

Followers of the literature on reentry may be interested in a new post on the Correctional Research Roundtable forum regarding three new reports from the Urban Institute's Returning Home study.

Posted to Thinking About Corrections (Weblog) by Eileen Conway on 06-17-2009

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