Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
12 March 2021
Norway
Text
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...
15 December 2020
King County, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Single parents readjusting to life after incarceration face numerous hurdles to re-entering society. A housing program in Seattle now provides access to transitional housing alongside services that help parents reconn...
12 October 2020
New York, New York, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
When jails and prisons released people early as a pandemic precaution, New York City responded to the threat of increased homelessness by temporarily housing more than 400 people in hotels while providing them with re...
7 August 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A New Way of Life Reentry Project creates homes for women as they leave prison, providing a refuge and programs to help ensure a more successful transition into life on the outside. The network of small group homes, s...
14 May 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
ChiFresh Kitchen is a worker-owned cooperative that gives formerly incarcerated people an income, and a second chance, under a corporate structure that attacks high unemployment from the ground up. Formed as a caterin...
12 May 2020
New York, New York, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Long the target of jail-reduction advocates, New York City’s Rikers Island jail released more than one-quarter of its inmates within the first two months of a coronavirus outbreak behind bars. The early releases stemm...
11 May 2020
Florida, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Less than two years after Florida voters abolished the state’s lifetime ban on voting by anyone with a felony criminal record – a law that disenfranchised more than 10% of the state's voting-age people – an estimated ...
6 April 2020
Oakland, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
California’s governor signed an executive order allocating $50 million to lease hotel rooms for those experiencing homelessness after being released from prison as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. While the hotel busi...
9 March 2020
Australia
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Using a performance-based contract to give a private prison company the incentive to lower recidivism has encouraged the private operator of Australia’s largest prison to foster a more positive environment and provide...
20 February 2020
Kenya
Text
800-1500 Words
Kenya's overcrowded and poorly maintained prisons offer some educational and rehabilitative programs to inmates, but the nuns of the Dimesse congregation provide something else to try to transform the lives of those w...
8 January 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
If incarcerated, low-income individuals who are reliant on Medicaid typically lose access to their benefits which accelerates the difficulty of reentry. To help close the gap, the National Association of Counties and ...
16 December 2019
Oakland, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The Homecoming Project in Oakland provides people recently released from prison with a soft landing by giving them free housing for six months, along with a menu of support services, in private homes willing to take i...
The Guardian
Senay Boztas
12 December 2019
Netherlands
Text
800-1500 Words
Providing care to individuals with psychiatric problems reduces the need for incarceration. With the help of a psychological rehabilitation program known as TBS, the Netherlands has shut entire prisons following a dec...
11 December 2019
Oakland, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Home-sharing programs help formerly incarcerated individuals avoid homelessness. The Homecoming Project, operated by Impact Justice, a nonprofit in California, leverages the sharing economy model to reduce homelessnes...
1 December 2019
Oakland, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Homecoming Project pays homeowners to rent their spare bedrooms to people just released from long prison sentences, providing welcoming, free, stable housing option to people whose re-entry is often hamstrung by h...
25 November 2019
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Community members and local organizations on the South side of Chicago collaborate to reclaim their neighborhoods from crime, violence, and poverty by engaging in community conflict resolution, policing and networks o...
19 November 2019
Fulton, Missouri, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Fulton Community Supervision Center in Missouri provides trauma-informed, gender-specific care and services to women who face the risk of recidivism. Participants live at the center, where they receive services li...
14 October 2019
San Francisco, California, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
For seniors re-entering after incarceration, San Francisco’s Senior Ex-Offenders Program (SEOP) is there to help with the transition. The program offers transitional housing, employment services, and even assistance f...
7 October 2019
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The Transitions Clinic Network is a program that helps to connect people who were arrested on drug charges with health-care professionals and a social support system once they are released. Originally piloted in San F...
2 October 2019
New York, United States
Multi-Media
5-15 Minutes
After kids spend time in one of New York City's community-based incarceration facilities, they are enrolled in an "aftercare" program, which includes group meetings and mentoring, to help with the transition. As Milwa...
26 September 2019
Santee, California, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
San Diego County’s Las Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility was redesigned to look less like a jail and more like a community. The newly designed facility prioritizes rehabilitation over punishment by providing educ...
21 September 2019
Long Beach, California, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
California is leading the nation in prison education. “There are now in-person community college classes in all but one prison in the state, enrolling some 4,000 students." Nationally, 4 percent of higher ed instituti...
20 June 2019
Portland, Maine, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
A company in Portland, Maine works to "dignify temp-work" through the employment of former convicts, addicts, and other individuals in rough transitional phases of life. The company operates as a for-profit business w...
3 June 2019
Chesapeake, Virginia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
As former inmates face the immense challenge of finding employment post-incarceration, some have turned to YouTube as a way of turning their stories into financial security. With just a handful of prison channels garn...
22 May 2019
Olympia, Washington, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The Sustainability in Prisons Project has brought environmental lectures, work, and support to thousands of inmates since 2003. It offers a unique type of prison work - wildlife preservation, such as taking care of en...
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