Reentry Resources
The Justice Center coordinates the Reentry Policy Council (RPC), which provides bipartisan recommendations and resources that policymakers can use to improve the likelihood that adults released from prison or jail will avoid crime and become productive members of families and communities. Below is a list of the Justice Center’s reentry resources, which are also available on the Reentry Policy Council website, www.reentrypolicy.org.
Core Documents
Project Descriptions
- Access to Federal Benefits Project: Overview (pdf)
- Assessment Processes Project: Overview (pdf)
- Children and Families Project: Overview (pdf)
- Financial Obligations Project: Overview (pdf)
- Law Enforcement Project: Overview (pdf)
- Reentry and Housing Initiative: Overview (pdf)
Products
New from the Justice Center:Repaying Debts This publication discusses how policymakers can increase accountability among people who commit crimes, improve rates of child support collection and victim restitution, and make people’s transition from prisons and jails to the community safe and successful. |
- Interactive Reentry Housing Options Chart
- Ensuring Timely Access to Medicaid and SSI/SSDI for People with Mental Illness Released from Prison: Four Case Studies (pdf)
- Homelessness and Prisoner Reentry (pdf)
- How and Why Medicaid Matters for People with Serious Mental Illness Released from Jail (pdf)
- Public Housing Authorities and Prisoner Reentry (pdf)
- Report of the Re-Entry Policy Council
- Report of the Re-Entry Policy Council Preview (pdf)
Coming Soon
- A Guide to Improving Assessment Processes in Corrections Settings. Provides a framework for corrections administrators to consider in developing strategies for improving their assessment procedures. This guide will be accompanied by an online, interactive tool that will include examples of common instruments and lessons from the corrections field about assessment procedures in various jurisdictions. Learn more...
- A Guide for Assessing Law Enforcement's Role in Reentry. Helps law enforcement executives examine to what extent their agency's activities support or impede successful prisoner reentry, and provides recommendations for enhancing efforts in this area. Learn more...
- Sex Offender Housing Guide. Assists state and local government officials seeking options for housing people convicted of committing a sex offense who have been incarcerated and released to the community. Learn more...
- State Strategies for Expanding Housing Opportunities for Adults Released from Prison and Jail. Offers three approaches that criminal justice agencies and their partners can use to meet the housing needs of people reentering the community from prison or jail: housing placement and rental assistance, housing development, and high-stakes neighborhood improvement. Learn more...