Reentry Resources from the Justice Center
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New Web-Based Version of Repaying Debts Report: The Justice Center has launched an online version of its Repaying Debts report, a publication about how policymakers can increase accountability among people who commit crimes, improve rates of child support collection and victim restitution, and make people's transitions from prisons and jails to the community safe and successful. |
Other products and publications:
- Federal Benefits online tools: Federal Benefits Comparison Chart | Keys to Federal Benefit Access
- Repaying Debts: Report summary | Full report
- 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.
Read more about the RPC's project on Improving Assessment Processes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 re-entering the community from prison or jail: housing placement and rental assistance, housing development, and high-stakes neighborhood improvement.