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... as youth charged with criminal activity. To better help youth and their families, many status offender systems are implementing immediate, family-focused alternatives to court intervention, first referring at-risk young people and their families to social service programs in their communities and using...

... family-focused supervision model. Additionally, APD has partnered with the Department of Child Support Services to assist clients with active child support cases. In 2010, APD, the District Attorney s Of ce, and the Sheriff s Department collaborated to launch a Learning Center inside the Adult Probation...

... or a family relations office be established in all correctional systems to facilitate strong family bonds, advocate for families, and even provide counseling for offenders and their families.54 Family-focused services assist family members in coping more effectively and in a healthier manner, so they, in turn...

... department of probation and parole, juvenile parole in the Ohio Department of Youth Services, and the Fox Valley Technical College s Tribal Probation Academy in Appleton, Wisconsin. Numerous other family-focused practices and policies are being adopted nationwide. Family impact statements, modeled...

... to housing, loss of family and social ties, negative mental health effects, increased risk of suicide and early death, and difficulties in finding needed services and supports. A prison term reduces human capital, as a result, for instance, of lost connections to potential employers, diminished work skills...

..., httpswww.ucpress.edu/journals/reprints-permissions. DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.1525/fsr.2022.34.5.310. 310 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 34, NO. 5 JUNE 2022 performed marriage ceremonies for participants and met with participants children to provide support. Family members also are offered several services available...

... of the availability of substance abuse treatment, strengthening families of ex-offenders, and the expansion of comprehensive re-entry services. II. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR THE LEGISLATION Re-entry refers to the return to the community of incarcerated individuals from America s jails and prisons...

... extensive reentry services. Although most of these services are geared toward the reentering individual, some extend to his or her family. The vast majority of these services are introduced after the individual has been released from incarceration.11 As a result, these services are introduced when...

... domestic violence among inmates during incarceration, and a smaller number provide prevention services to those reentering or their families that could reduce the risk of intimate partner violence upon release. Furthermore, only a small portion of domestic violence perpetrators may be identified as needing...

... identify that less than 10 percent of the justice-involved population can participate in programs and services directed at factors affecting criminal behavior, and that this level of access limits the impact on recidivism rates. Using the results of a simulation model focused on expanding services...

... poverty. 1 CAAs operate with a mix of funding that includes Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) funds.2 CEO s mission is to provide leadership on issues of economic justice by advancing racial equity and inclusive growth to ensure that all Philadelphians might share in the city s prosperous future. 3...

... and families know the resources when they re going through the process because everyone s so focused on prosecuting the crime. A few survivors said they had experienced signi cant nancial needs related to a homicide but had not received victim compensation or help in applying for it. We don t know of places...

...,drug andmental health treat ment, adequate housing, jobpreparation and place ment, family and community services that are so criticaltopreventingrecidivism. Focusing on neighborhoodswith a high concentra tionof returningoffenderswithin cities, thiseffortaims to harness local resources and streamline...

... unacceptable to keep ignoring this [incarceration and postincarceration] crisis in American families and communities, and describes plans to improve employment services and support for returning prisoners.56 And Senator Joseph Biden is one of FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 20, NO. 2 DECEMBER 2007 113...

.... That perspective excludes the vast majority of real or true victims, and it fails to acknowledge the trauma these unaccounted-for victims suffer. Unaddressed crime victim trauma is a signi cant driver of subsequent victimization and future crime perpetration by those victimized. Precluding victim services based...

... the still existing mandatory recidivate. Lest one misunderstood, with the exception of the Justice Safety Valve Act of 2015, none of the congressional bills proposed recognize the inherent problems with all (high) mandatory minimums. Rather they present a very limited approach, largely focused on what...

... on older adults. Research also has demonstrated that incarcerated people age more rapidly than individuals in the community, although little of this work has focused speci cally on those serving long sentences.14 Prolonged Separation from Family and Community People serving long sentences experience...

...Barry Krisberg © The Ohio State University Reforming the California Division of Juvenile Justice: What s the End Game? Most of the attention in the past year has focused on the affects of decarceration in the adult prison system through the process of Realignment. Far less attention has been...

... VOL. 32, NO. 4 APRIL 2020 as an opportunity to connect the family of the incarcerated to services they might need is a small step that, like reentry planning more generally, accounts for the fact, well established by research, that families and other social networks play a key role in supporting...

..., and Family/Parenting on the [bureau’s] inmate computer system. Inmates are advised of the assessments at Admission and Orientation and are reminded of the assessments at intake with Psychology Services. Additionally, the inmate computer system has a bulletin that details the availability of the assessments...