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& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
23 June 2021
Nevada, United States
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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
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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...
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 ...
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
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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...
13 May 2021
Akron, Ohio, United States
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
28 March 2021
Newark, New Jersey, United States
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800-1500 Words
Newark's Community Street Team hires and trains formerly incarcerated people and people who have been victims of violence to mediate disputes before they turn violent. Street outreach interventions have been associate...
12 March 2021
Norway
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1500-3000 Words
When Covid-19 threatened to disrupt Norway's correctional system, the country's prisons and jails were quick to pivot their practices to protect those who were incarcerated. Although it helped that the country's corre...
Rafu Shimpo
Annakai Hayakawa Geshlider
11 March 2021
San Quentin, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
An educational program called ROOTS (Restoring Our Original True Selves) taught at San Quentin prison in Marin County, California, has transformed into the Literature Club due to the pandemic and has reached other nea...
11 March 2021
Oakland, California, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
With hate crimes against Asian Americans on the rise, Oakland's Community Ambassadors program serves the city's Chinatown by caring for the neighborhood and making people feel safe. Started as a way for formerly incar...
26 February 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The largest police raid in New York City history did little to resolve a decades-long conflict between residents of two Harlem housing projects, nor did it address the underlying problems causing violence in the commu...
17 February 2021
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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800-1500 Words
The DEAR program (Durham Expunction and Restoration) put 11,084 drivers back on the road legally and waived $2.7 million in fines in a purge of old cases that had revoked driving privileges for unpaid fines and fees. ...
4 February 2021
Iowa, United States
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1500-3000 Words
More than 3,000 Iowans voted in the 2020 presidential election thanks to an executive order signed by the Republican governor after a protest campaign by activists to erase Iowa's permanent ban on voting by people wit...
28 January 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
When people emerge from long prison sentences, they can be in a hurry to put their lives back on track. But, when enrolled in a voluntary re-entry program called the Concordance Academy of Leadership, they first must ...
27 January 2021
Michigan, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A new law in Michigan will automatically expunge misdemeanors and felonies after several years, making it easier to find employment for those who have a record. The automatic nature of the expungement removes the barr...
24 January 2021
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Inmates to Entrepreneurs has graduated 1 million people from its eight-week program that teaches incarcerated people how to start their own low-capital businesses. An extension of a free online entrepreneurship course...
21 January 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
St. Louis' Concordance Academy of Leadership turns the traditional approach to prison re-entry programs on its head. Rather than pushing people just released from prison to find housing and a job, the academy pays its...
14 January 2021
Zimbabwe
Text
800-1500 Words
As part of the coronavirus lockdown in Zimbabwe, people were banned from visiting prisons, but a mobile app has allowed relatives to send supplies to those who are incarcerated via their cellphone. This newest initiat...
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