Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
10 November 2021
California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
One year after California legislators created a legal opening for formerly incarcerated firefighters to use their prison training to land firefighter jobs on the outside, the system envisioned by the law's supporters ...
8 November 2021
North Carolina, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Community health workers with North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition Program (NC FIT) counsel people recently released from jails and prisons to help them get the care they need for mental and physical health...
16 October 2021
Sabaneta, Venezuela
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Rather than fleeing or fighting the twin threats to its business from criminal gangs and an aggressively anti-business government, the managers of Venezuelan rum-maker Ron Santa Teresa chose to make peace with both th...
14 October 2021
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
When California adopted a new law in 2020 allowing formerly incarcerated firefighters to petition to have their criminal records expunged and parole waived, the law excluded people with the most serious, violent offen...
18 August 2021
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Starting in 2017, California has grown more open to licensing formerly incarcerated people to work as lawyers. State licensing authorities set high barriers to entry to the legal profession in their "moral fitness" li...
KXAN-TV
Clare O'Connor
26 July 2021
Austin, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Jail to Jobs pays youth while they get trained for jobs in construction, manufacturing, landscaping, and cooking. The youth come from youth detention, the streets, probation, and foster care and their trainers are for...
The Cut
Amelia Schonbek
21 July 2021
Portland, Oregon, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Among the many restorative justice programs in the U.S., the Domestic Violence Safe Dialogue program was one of the few to arrange face-to-face dialogue between survivors and men who had violently abused women. This f...
16 July 2021
Denver, Colorado, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Providing permanent housing with a menu of health and social services saved the city of Denver millions of dollars and stabilized the lives of hundreds of people. A three-year controlled experiment provided various se...
Transitions Online
Tanya Hendel
30 June 2021
Gomel, Belarus
Text
1500-3000 Words
People Plus has begun to fill a vacuum left by the Belarus prison system's lack of reentry services aimed at giving people a better chance to succeed after prison. The NGO provides its "resocialization" counseling for...
23 June 2021
Nevada, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Thirteen states restored the right to vote to millions of formerly incarcerated people in the years leading up to the 2020 elections. An analysis of four of them – Nevada, Kentucky, Iowa, and New Jersey – shows the ne...
21 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Formerly Incarcerated Law Students Advocacy Association at City University of New York's law school mentors people whose criminal records serve as a barrier to pursuing a law career. FILSAA is part of a movement t...
9 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
People who spend their time in prison getting physically fit might seek to turn what they've learned into a job as a fitness trainer, once they're released. But felony convictions act as a barrier to such jobs. A Seco...
4 June 2021
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
At the Second Chance Center, people emerging from prison get the necessities to survive, like housing, clothing, and food. But they also get deeper learning about how to repair their lives, thanks to an inclusive and ...
3 June 2021
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Colorado's Transforming Safety initiative empowers communities to decide how to use grant money to address high rates of recidivism. One community-chosen grantee is Colorado Springs Works, founded by a man who made a ...
3 June 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Video
3-5 Minutes
ChiFresh Chicago is owned and run by formerly incarcerated women of color. The business' five owner-workers responded to the pandemic's effect on food insecurity, in neighborhoods that already had high rates of that p...
NPR
Katia Riddle
29 May 2021
Portland, Oregon, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
The boom in green-energy spending and government grants fuels the work of Leaders Before Legends, a Portland startup that lines up well-paying jobs installing solar panels and the like. The jobs go to people formerly ...
25 May 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
At least 11 states have enacted laws that automatically seal certain criminal records, to help people find jobs and housing without long-ago mistakes posing unfair obstacles. Pennsylvania's 2019 law has helped an esti...
24 May 2021
West Virginia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Community reentry councils are helping formerly incarcerated people access the support they need to get back on their feet. The councils are a network of agencies and organizations that can aid in securing housing, em...
13 May 2021
Akron, Ohio, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
People returning home to Akron from prison step into a community that needs healing, work that the formerly incarcerated can help with because of the lessons they can impart to younger people. But first they need thei...
11 May 2021
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Michigan prisons and the state's secretary of state teamed up to provide people leaving prison on parole with the one thing they often lack: valid personal identification papers. Without a Social Security card or stat...
11 May 2021
West Virginia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The West Virginia Council of Churches formed a network of community reentry councils to help people leaving prison line up basic necessities, from housing to employment. The councils use their members' community conne...
6 May 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Philadelphia Community Bail Fund freed more than 400 people from jail in 2020, thanks to $3 million donated amid the COVID-19 crisis and racial justice protests. Organizers of the Black Mama's Day Bailout, an annu...
20 April 2021
London, United Kingdom
Text
800-1500 Words
The Clink operates in four British prisons, teaching haute-cuisine cooking skills and then helping its formerly incarcerated trainees establish productive lives once they're released. The training inside prison featur...
19 April 2021
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The movement to promote science education and careers among people who are currently or formerly incarcerated is making slow but real progress. Programs like the National Science Foundation's STEM Opportunities in Pri...
28 March 2021
New Jersey, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
When people leave prison, they often gravitate to public libraries as a free place to get computer access and help in looking for work and navigating other aspects of life outside. New Jersey Public Libraries' Fresh S...
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