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  • Everyone's tired of homelessness in California. Are you willing to rent your extra room to help?

    Ethan Ward

    July 11, 2023 |

    AfroLA |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Homecoming Project helps provide housing for formerly incarcerated people by matching those in need with homeowners offering spare bedrooms. Since starting in 2018, The Homecoming Project has placed nearly 100 people in host homes and has helped those individuals connect with employment and long-term housing.

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  • More cities are offering no-strings-attached cash to residents. Here's what Philly can learn.

    Layla A. Jones

    July 10, 2023 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    Funded by a philanthropic donation and funds raised by the city, a guaranteed income program in Durham, North Carolina, provided people who were formerly incarcerated with a monthly stipend of $600. The no-strings-attached payments are meant to decrease recidivism by helping recipients meet their needs.

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  • At Alaska's prison farm, a different way of serving time

    Michelle Theriault Boots

    June 30, 2023 |

    Anchorage Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm is a 640-acre farm, owned by the Alaska Department of Corrections, that operates as an alternative prison model. Select minimum-security inmates labor to keep the farm going throughout their sentence, producing tons of vegetable harvests (745,000 pounds of hay, nearly 5,000 pounds of tomatoes, 14,000 pounds of lettuce, 12,000 pounds of celery, 22,000 pounds of cabbage) and raising 150 cattle, 50 pigs and 300-400 chickens that produce 51,000 eggs—all of which is redistributed to other prisons and community food banks.

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  • Once-Resistant Rural Court Officials Begin to Embrace Medications to Treat Addiction

    Taylor Sisk

    June 29, 2023 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Dandridge, Tennessee

    Amidst the ever-present opioid crisis, there has been a shift among judges, prosecutors and law enforcement agencies beginning to let go of the stigma associated with medication for opioid use disorder. As of 2022, more than 90% of drug courts in communities with high opioid mortality rates have reported that they allow medications to be used to treat addiction. Some areas have also seen the emergence of drug recovery courts that specialize in helping people facing addiction get treatment, rather than jail time.

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  • Activist at 14, Burned Out by 26. Today, Emani Davis Teaches That to Change the World, You Must Also Take Care of Yourself

    Nell Bernstein

    June 23, 2023 |

    MindSite News |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

    The Omowale Project works to support Black and brown activists who have been impacted by incarceration. Through the Projects sessions, advocates, formerly incarcerated people, or people whose parents were incarcerated when they were a child, are taught how to self-advocate, rest and care for themselves emotionally, physically and spiritually.

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  • This Coffee Shop Aids In Re-Entry, But Struggles To Find Its Own Stability

    Emma Wilcox

    May 30, 2023 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Hamilton, Ohio

    The Fringe coffee shop in Hamilton, Ohio, employs people who were formerly incarcerated as part of a re-entry program. The shop owners work with each employee to create a re-entry plan that can include things like therapy, addiction and recovery meetings, tutoring and education, and even free tattoo removal.

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  • 'We're a community': These groups are working to bail out incarcerated women in time for Mother's Day

    Candice Norwood

    May 12, 2023 |

    The 19th |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    As a part of the National Bail Out effort in the United States, the Free Black Mamas DMV campaign bails incarcerated women out of jails in the Washington D.C. area in time for Mother’s Day.

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  • Philly's New Violence Intervention Program Focuses On Stability And Support

    Natalie Kerr

    May 04, 2023 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A community violence intervention program modeled after READI is beginning in Philadelphia to connect high-risk individuals who were victims of violence or formerly incarcerated with basic needs services like therapy, employment, and housing assistance to reduce violence and recidivism. Holistic approaches like READI have already proven effective as half of participants are still working full time a year after attending the program and the program’s experimental group saw a 79% reduction in arrests for shootings and homicide.

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  • Headfort Foundation Provides Free Legal Aid

    Rachael Roberts Dara Cyril Funmilayo Oso- Kunmolu

    May 04, 2023 |

    KAFTAN TV |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Headfort Foundation provides free legal services to people who are unlawfully incarcerated in Nigeria. They reach those in need of help through phone calls, submissions on their mobile app, and visiting courthouses.

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  • "Stable Recovery" Trains People in Rehab to Work with Horses

    Anya Slepyan

    May 03, 2023 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Lexington, Kentucky

    The Stable Recovery program provides housing and recovery support for people suffering from addiction, as well as job training to prepare participants to work in the equine industry. The program offers a sense of therapeutic community to those in recovery, as well as newly trained workers to address the labor shortage in the equine industry.

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