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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Texas Social Workers Challenge Blanket Denial of State Occupational License Based on Youthful Assault Convictions by Matthew Clarke The Institute of Justice (IJ) is helping two Texas women with master’s degrees in social work challenge a 2019 state law that bars anyone with a prior conviction involving the threat or …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Guaranteed Basic Income Programs for Prisoners Reduce Food Insecurity and Homelessness by Anthony Accurso The cities of Gainesville, Florida, and Durham, North Carolina, experimented with providing guaranteed basic income (GBI) to prisoners who were reentering the community, and have released information about the outcomes created by the program. Both programs …
News in Brief by Alabama: Elmore County Jail guard Lita Williams, 57, was arrested and charged with first-degree promoting prison contraband on May 21, 2025, the Wetumpka Herald reported. Her arrest followed discovery of a cellphone in a jail cell during a routine search two weeks prior. Data from the …
New Orleans Public Defender’s “Redeem Team” Says: “Re-entry Is Never Over” by Journalist Radley Balko published an interview on March 15, 2025, with five former state prisoners in Louisiana now employed as peer advocates with the Public Defender’s office in Orleans Parish. Known as the “redeem team,” the five men …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Tucson Program Slashes Pretrial Misdemeanor Incarceration by Writing to the Board of Supervisors of Arizona’s Pima County on November 7, 2024, County Administrator Jan Lesher reported striking results from first-year operations of its Transition Center in Tucson: Since it opened in September 2023, the share of those held at the …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
California Stops Raiding Released Prisoners’ Gate Money by California prisoners will benefit from a policy change announced by the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) on December 4, 2024. Bowing to pressure from politicians, as well as a class action lawsuit, the CDCR will no longer garnish gate money …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Half of Hawai’i Prisoners Released With No ID by M ore than seven years after Hawai’i lawmakers adopted a 2017 measure requiring the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to help prisoners obtain identification documents at release, over half of those released in the year ending October 2024 had …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
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ABA Highlights Ohio Prisoner’s Successful Transition to Lawyer by On October 29, 2024, the American Bar Association’s ABA Journal highlighted a former “jailhouse lawyer” who succeeded in becoming a licensed attorney after release. Damon Davis, 47, is now a lawyer with the Hamilton County Public Defender’s Office in Cincinnati. But …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: housing
Not Just Another Shared House: North Carolina Farm Eases Re-entry for Released Prisoners by Nestled in central North Carolina’s Alamance County, Benevolence Farm offers a unique reentry program: a holistic approach to supporting formerly incarcerated women. The 13-acre farm serves as their residence, a hub for social advocacy and a …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Long Wait List for Texas’ Only College-Level Re-Entry Class for Prisoners by As of November 26, 2024, more than 250 Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisoners were on the wait list for a re-entry class offered at nine state prisons near Huntsville by Lee Community College in Baytown. The …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Medicare Now Available to Those on Probation and Parole by On November 1, 2024, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a rule change that updates the definition of who is “in custody” and therefore ineligible for Medicare health coverage. As of that date, those under community …
BOP Prisoners in Alabama Strike to Protest Release Date Confusion by On September 11, 2024, several prisoners began a hunger strike at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) in Montgomery, Alabama, protesting a frustrating lack of clarity about their release dates fully six years after the First Step Act of 2018 …
Washington Prisoners Prep for Firefighting Career After Release by A new program is preparing some Washington state prisoners to become wildland firefighters after release. Though launched only recently, ARC 20 traces its roots to “honor camps” that state lawmakers established in 1939 to clear and maintain land owned by the …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Former Tacoma Reentry Center Severs Washington DOC Contract by Progress House Association (PHA), the sole reentry center in Washington’s Pierce County, ended its contract with the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) on June 30, 2024. Founded by the late Rev. Leo C. Brown Jr., PHA served the formerly incarcerated for …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
New York Court of Appeals (Lightly) Slaps State Prison Officials for Holding Sex Offenders Past Release by On April 25, 2024, New York’s highest court took up a challenge brought by sex offenders confined in residential treatment facilities beyond expiration of their prison sentences. The result: A puny demand that …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Kentucky’s Failure to Timely Release Prisoners Costs Taxpayers $30 Million (So Far) by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney When Kentucky prisoner Keith Bramblett complained about not receiving “good time credit” against his sentence for the class he took while incarcerated, an official with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) replied: …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Federal Prisoner Will Appear on Alaska Congressional Ballot by On September 10, 2024, an Alaska court refused to keep Eric G. Hafner from appearing on the upcoming November ballot as a Democratic candidate for the state’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives—even though he has never been to …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Filed under: Education, jobs
Washington Prison Trade Training Program Boosts Employment Income Upon Release by When Brittany Wright, 30, got out of a Washington prison in June 2023, she was confident that it would be easier than her last release 10 years earlier. Back then, she had found it almost impossible to find a …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Former Prisoners Can Become President, But Other Job Options Are Limited by The conviction on May 30, 2024, of former Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) on 34 felony charges in New York did not derail the current GOP nominee’s campaign to return to the White House. But it would prevent …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Colorado Lawmakers Take a Pass on Cash Assistance for Released Prisoners by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Colorado lawmakers wasted little time in this year’s session before killing Senate Bill 12 (SB 12) on February 7, 2024. Though the state has one of the country’s highest recidivism rates—about 50%—the one-­year …
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