The first two employment posts focused on how to improve outcomes for reintegrating people once they were in the community. For this post, I’d like to focus on what should be happening on the inside. This is a graphic story… … [Continue reading]
Employment and Reintegration, Part II: Assess and Collaborate!
In my previous post, I referenced a White Paper (Duran, Plotkin, Potter, Rosen) published by the Justice Center that explores the intersection between reintegration and employment. With this post, I’d like to delve a bit deeper into their … [Continue reading]
Employment and Reintegration, Part 1: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us
When I first started working in the niche known as community reentry, there was a widely-used refrain for two key pillars of successful reentry: a job and a place to live. This does not need a lot of explanation. Simply put, research shows that … [Continue reading]
Fear and Public Policy
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/opinion/when-junk-science-about-sex-offenders-infects-the-supreme-court.html?_r=0 I have often felt that any law that bears the name of a victim of crime is probably bad public policy. I suspect that this informal … [Continue reading]
Prison, Stories, and Healing
As part of the groundwork for an upcoming proposal, I am researching existing restorative justice practices in prison. So far, I’ve read about two broad ‘types’ of restorative prison initiatives: the first carves out certain areas of prison life–such … [Continue reading]