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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 …
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 • 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 • 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 • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Bankruptcy, housing
Bankruptcy Threatens $500,000 Settlement in Suit Alleging Housing Discrimination Against Former Prisoners in New York City by Formerly incarcerated residents of New York City appeared to land a punch in their fight to secure housing in the city’s notoriously tight real estate market on August 14, 2023, when the Fortune …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Moms Released from Massachusetts Prison Decry Dearth of Help by Crystal Hinson’s journey back into society in April 2023 after release from the Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) in Framingham exemplifies the biggest challenge often faced by women leaving prison: reuniting with their children. Leaving MCI-Framingham, the state’s only women’s lockup, …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Arkansas Parole Board Denies Release to Sex Offender For Failure to Find Appropriate Housing by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 2, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas dismissed a state prisoner’s habeas corpus petition challenging denial of his parole because he did …
Brief • August 16, 2023
The Fortune Society, Inc. V. iAFFORD NY, LLC, NY, Judgment, Discrimination, 2023 Case 1:22-cv-06584-PKC-SJB Document 49 Filed 08/16/23 Page 1 of 2 PageID #: 364 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK THE FORTUNE SOCIETY, INC. Civ. Action No. 1:22-cv-06584 Plaintiff, v. Judge Pamela …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: housing
California Easing Housing Hurdles for Released Prisoners by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon As retributive minded states likeTexas pursue ever more draconian measures and policies to deny housing to released prisoners (PLN, May 2021, pp. 34-35), California is beginning to enact measures and policies to assist released prisoners in obtaining …
Publication • 2023
Filed under: housing, Employment Record
Finding Home-Removing Barriers to Housing for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals, Sept. 2023 -~~~ WILSON -- -'=,,, "=""" CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND JUSTICE AT DUKE LAW September 2023 Finding Home Removing Barriers to Housing for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals Megan Moore and Angie Weis Gammell Table of Contents Table of Contents�����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������2 Executive Summary��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������3 …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Illinois Supreme Court Orders State DOC to Fund Required Treatment and Housing for Sex Offender’s Conditional Release by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 22, 2022, the Supreme Court of Illinois agreed with a former state prisoner that when the state sets conditions for release that he can’t …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Federal Court Says Illinois Statute Barring More Than One Sex Offender per Address Is Unconstitutional by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 11, 2022, the federal court for the Northern District of Illinois enjoined the state Department of Corrections (DOC) from keeping 25 sex offenders imprisoned who were eligible …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Supreme Court Passes on Case of New York Sex Offender Imprisoned Past Release Date for Lack of Compliant Housing by Chuck Sharman, Jory Smith by Jory Smith and Chuck Sharman On February 22, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to issue a writ of certiorari to hear an appeal by …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: housing
Exiting Prison With Complex Support Needs - the Role of Housing Assistance PEER REVIEWED FINAL REPORT NO. 361 Exiting prison with complex support needs: the role of housing assistance From the AHURI Inquiry: Inquiry into enhancing the coordination of housing supports for individuals leaving institutional settings Authored by Publication DateAugust …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Filed under: housing
A Guide To Finding Housing After Incarceration by MyMove.com (https://www.mymove.com/moving/guides/moving-after-incarceration/) What does life after prison look like for these returning citizens? Specifically, will they have the safe, affordable housing they need to set them up for stable, productive reentry? These questions are particularly pressing because around two-thirds of returning citizens …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Collateral Consequences of Mass Incarceration by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon A study released September 15, 2020 by New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice shows that when it comes to employment and housing having a criminal record in the U.S. makes an enormous difference on the outcomes a person …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: housing, Conditions of
Pay Up or Lockup: Housing Shortage Kept Cash-Poor Parolees Behind Bars by Ike Swetlitz by Ike Swetlitz, Searchlight New Mexico, originally published July 22, 2020 Source Material David, 28, was counting the days until January 6, 2012, when his prison sentence would end and he would be released on parole. …
M.G. V. Cuomo, NY, Second Amended Class Action Complaint, ADA Compliance, 2020 Case 7:19-cv-00639-CS-LMS Document 134 Filed 08/27/20 Page 1 of 100 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ----------------------------------------------------------------------- x M.G., P.C., C.J., M.J., J.R., D.R., S.D., W.P., and D.H., individually and on behalf of all similarly …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Filed under: housing
California Prison Reform Results in Housing Challenges for Former Prisoners by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Over 600,000 people are released from prisons across the U.S. each year, and a growing number of reentry providers are prepping to absorb increasing numbers as states reform their systems. In California, though, …
Article • February 4, 2020 • from PLN February, 2020
A Place for Released Prisoners to Go Home by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon A new program that began in 2018 in Alameda County, California aims to assist former prisoners with housing needs. The Homecoming Project matches newly released prisoners with hosts who are subsidized in what founder Alex Busansky …
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