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The Second Chance Act, and its subsequent Reauthorization Act of 2018, affords individuals opportunities to rebuild their lives after serving their sentences, ultimately allowing them to become proud citizens and good neighbors.
BJA’s suite of Second Chance Act programs support state, local, and tribal governments and nonprofit organizations in their work to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for people returning from incarceration.
The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) brought on two new Second Chance Fellows who were formerly incarcerated to help develop reentry policy. For the first time, one of...
What is the Second Chance Act? On April 28, 2008, the Second Chance Act of 2007, 18 U.S.C. § 3624 was signed into law to improve the outcomes for people returning to communities from prisons and jails.
Requires the Attorney General to: (1) take steps to educate employers on initiatives for hiring former federal, state, or local prisoners; and (2) conduct a pilot program for removing nonviolent elderly offenders (not less than age 65) from prison and placing them on home detention.
A few years later – in April 2008 – Congress passed the Second Chance Act, a federal investment in reentry strategies to reduce recidivism, increase public safety and reduce corrections costs for state and local governments.
The Second Chance Act (SCA) supports state, local, and tribal governments and nonprofit organizations in their work to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for people returning from state and federal prisons, local jails, and juvenile facilities.