Incarceration and Re-entry
The following resources address the effects of incarceration on families and children and the implications of formerly incarcerated adults returning to the community.
See also Our Work: Incarceration and Re-entry, an overview of Casey's investment in this issue.
Release Planning for Successful Reentry: A Guide for Corrections, Service Providers, and Community Groups
2008
A new report by the Urban Institute, funded by Casey, identifies the eight most basic and immediate needs former prisoners have when they exit prison, recommends policies to meet those needs, and highlights the challenges practitioners face when developing release planning. This paper is designed to help the corrections community, service providers and others prepare prisoners for the moment of release—a critical point of time that can make or break an inmate’s successful reintegration into society. The guide can help corrections agencies and their community partners improve the way prisoners are prepared for release, and raise awareness of both community and government resources for release planning.
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What Shall We Then Do? A Family Freedom Kit for Creating Healing Communities
2008
This guide, developed in partnership with the Progressive National Baptist Convention, illuminates the Healing Communities model. This model seeks to engage congregations in restoration and healing people in their own congregations who have been affected by crime and incarceration. It does this by transforming hearts and minds, creating a sense of welcome inclusion, reducing stigma and shame, and building networks of support that start in houses of worship and expand to the community at large.
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What Shall We Then Do? An Interdenominational Guide and Kit for Creating Healing Communities
2008
This guide, developed for an interdenominational Christian audience, illuminates the Healing Communities model. This model seeks to engage congregations in restoration and healing people in their own congregations who have been affected by crime and incarceration. It does this by transforming hearts and minds, creating a sense of welcome inclusion, reducing stigma and shame, and building networks of support that start in houses of worship and expand to the community at large.
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Inventory and Reforming State-Created Employment Restrictions Based on Criminal Records: A Policy Brief and Guide
2008
This policy brief gives states a roadmap for inventorying employment restrictions and provides to policymakers, employers, agencies and job seekers the critical details of a state’s employment restrictions. An inventory can inform both compliance with the restrictions and policy reform.
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Florida’s Employment Restrictions Based on Criminal Records: Key Findings and Recommendations
2007
The Casey Foundation supported the work of Governor Bush’s Ex-Offender Task Force to build our knowledge of the challenges of prisoners reenering their communities and how to accomplish system and policy changes. Through the work of the task force, the Governor issued an Executive Order requiring state agencies to inventory and report on the state-created employment restrictions based on criminal records. The report reveals a vast patchwork of restrictions affecting reentry and makes recommendations to align restrictions with meaningful public safety concerns.
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