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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.

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Balancing Justice with Mercy: An Interfaith Guide for Creating Healing Communities

2008

This guide, developed for an interfaith audience in secular language, seeks to engage congregations in restoration and healing people in their own congregations who have been affected by crime and incarceration.

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Mentoring Formerly Incarcerated Adults: Insights from the Ready4Work Reentry Initiative

2009

This report examines mentoring the formerly incarcerated within the context of a larger programmatic strategy. It describes how mentoring was implemented in the Ready4Work sites and the extent to which mentoring was appealing to the participants.

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Mentoring Former Prisoners: A Guide for Reentry Programs

2009

This manual offers practical recommendations and helpful strategies for those mentoring individuals reentering communities. It draws upon the experiences of the Ready4Work sites and established best practices to provide guidelines for practitioners who work with the formerly incarcerated.

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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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Publication thumbnail for From Options to Action: A Roadmap for City Leaders to Connect Formerly Incarcerated Individuals to Work

From Options to Action: A Roadmap for City Leaders to Connect Formerly Incarcerated Individuals to Work

2008

This report aims to provide cities with a framework for implementing a more coordinated, intentional approach to reentry that will promote long-term solutions.

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Publication thumbnail for What Shall We Then Do? A Family Freedom Kit for Creating Healing Communities

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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