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Prison-college pipeline programs that support admitted students to continue pursuing their degrees post-release at partner colleges, which may offer scholarships, reentry planning, and supportive services. Expanded reentry services for returning college-bound citizens to provide mentoring, counseling, career support, and meet other needs to ...
An essential argument for putting prisoners to work is in-prison productivity translating to preparation for entering the workforce post-release. Prison labor is cost-effective for tax payers, allows prisoners to contribute to their families from inside through the generation of income, and can be a form of restorative justice [ 24 ] [ circular ...
The First Step Act, formally known as the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act, is a bipartisan criminal justice bill passed by the 115th U.S. Congress and signed by President Donald Trump in December 2018.
The Progress House Association operates the only reentry center in Pierce County, one of 13 the DOC has spread across Washington that offer work-release opportunities and help former prisoners ...
In a news release announcing the groundbreaking for the prisons, Slattery called the new facilities “the future of American corrections.” Among the new Correctional Services Corp. prisons was the Pahokee Youth Development Center, which sat in the middle of sugarcane fields in a rural, swampy part of the state northwest of Miami.
Former President Donald Trump’s administration released prisoners held by the U.S. in exchange for Americans hostages, contrary to his recent claims.
Iran may free five detained U.S. citizens as part of a deal under which $6 billion in Iranian funds in South Korea would be unfrozen and has moved four of them from jail to house arrest. Siamak ...
Jon Donyae Ponder is an American thrice-convicted bank-robber who after his release in 2009 has founded the Hope for Prisoners program in Nevada which helps former prisoners to reintegrate into society. [1] Ponder's work was put into the national spotlight when President Donald Trump granted him a pardon during the 2020 Republican National ...