Search Results for formerly incarcerated persons

.... This cleavage between the expectations, experiences, and understanding of persons being tested relative to those of supervision agencies presents an avenue for the government to improve community relations, and specifically, improve trust among formerly incarcerated persons towards the supervision process...

... on either victims and survivors or formerly incarcerated persons and their family members; many participants, however, had personal or family experiences with both perspectives. Listening session protocols included similar questions for both groups, as well as inquiries grounded in the speci c experience...

... The key metric for determining whether or not public safety is being preserved when a formerly incarcerated person reenters society is the recidivism rate. That may sound easy to measure, but in fact there is no clear, universally accepted de nition of recidivism. The Council of State Governments Justice...

... the President. To help address the backlog of over 18,000 pending clemency applications, the FIX Clemency Act would create an independent U.S. Clemency Board (Board) that is made up of nine individuals appointed by the President, including a person who is formerly incarcerated. The Board would be responsible...

... that can span generations. Yet there are also countless legal backwaters across the country where money, instead of insulating a defendant from the worst of the criminal legal system, puts a different kind of target on their back. Drawing on the author’s lived experience as a formerly incarcerated citizen...

... of any type or even to vote against pro-law enforcement candidates. What is clear and abundantly so is that these laws sever a formerly incarcerated person s most direct link to civic participation. They cause further alienation and disillusionment between these individuals and the communities...

.... Former U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite modeled that behavior by hiring a formerly incarcerated person to run the reentry program in the Eastern District of Louisiana.23 Prosecutors must also consider the impact of federal immigration enforcement on their ability keep their communities safe. If undocumented...

.... In fact, for those with the highest risk of recidivism, family ties are generally not strong prior to incarceration, so developing housing options and alternatives for these persons is essential to assisting with their re-entry. Couloute, Lucius. Nowhere to Go: Homelessness among formerly incarcerated...

... to imprisoned women have since been included in the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person (FIRST STEP) Act.4 The Act was crafted as a bipartisan prison reform bill that would end the deadlock on federal prison reform and could feasibly be signed into law...

... of requiring red badges for those deemed a security risk (i.e., anyone with a criminal conviction), or to adopt a policy for that day requiring everyone to don the red badge, thereby eliminating any distinction between the formerly incarcerated and never incarcerated. V. Lunch with the President I worked...

... communities. For that matter, those rehabilitated lifers who remain in prison also have important contributions to make. This article offers a blueprint for a role the formerly or currently incarcerated can play in decarceration and public safety by helping to create and operate a reintegration hub...

..., in the best circumstances, also be providing a service or product for a paying customer: the transitional work employer. III. Keys to Scaling Transitional Work Programs for Formerly Incarcerated People Transitional work makes sense as a workforce development strategy, and its efficacy to reduce...

.... The interviews took place between March and June 2020. Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, all interviews were conducted by telephone. We recruited participants through staff and email listservs at various reentry organizations in Philadelphia. The interview protocol for the formerly incarcerated women focused...

... most vividly is the people. I conducted several of the interviews with formerly incarcerated individuals myself and oversaw a team of five other interviewers who compared notes and impressions on a weekly basis. As I reread the fictionalized names I recalled people s real names, even after all...

... higher as well, so it is dif cult to tease out their impact on the City s declining incarceration rate. Clearly, this is an area in need of further study. It is also possible that this robust program environment helped to support formerly incarcerated persons so that crime rates did not rise...

... of a new focus on prisoner reentry are dozens if not hundreds of articles in local and national newspapers often describing the barriers faced by those formerly incarcerated as well as documentary films, television reports, and features in national weekly magazines. As we look back on the first decade...

... would establish an independent commission to process clemency applications in a transparent way and make recommendations to the president based on a wide range of viewpoints, including those of a formerly-incarcerated commissioner. Recommending candidates for clemency to the president on a regular basis...

... Outstanding Services to Crime Victims award from President Bush. Tarra Simmons, State Representative, Washington State Legislature. In 2020, Simmons became the rst formerly incarcerated person elected to the Washington State Legislature, representing the 23rd Legislative District. Her commitment to public...

... is available online at httpcolsontaskforce. org/cctf- nal-recommendations/ Executive Summary After decades of unbridled growth in its prison population, the United States faces a de ning moment. There is broad, bipartisan agreement that the costs of incarceration have far outweighed the bene ts, and that our...

... understood and is often misrepresented in the media and popular imagination. Prisoners, their families, and their advocates are often pitted against prison officials and staff, with very little occasion for constructive dialogue across these lines and about personal experiences with incarceration. In pulling...