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In New York City, "more than 54 percent of people released from prison moved straight into the city's shelter system in 2017." [29] Across the country, initiatives are being made to assist ex-offenders find housing. [29] In Alameda County, California, homeowners are partnering with formerly incarcerated individuals and allowing them to rent.
Decarceration includes overlapping reformist and abolitionist strategies, from "front door" options such as sentencing reform, decriminalization, diversion and mental health treatment to "back door" approaches, exemplified by parole reform and early release into re-entry programs, [5] amnesty for inmates convicted of non-violent offenses and imposition of prison capacity limits. [6]
The Second Chance Act of 2007 (), titled "To reauthorize the grant program for reentry of offenders into the community in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, to improve reentry planning and implementation, and for other purposes," was submitted to the House by Representative Danny Davis (D-IL) to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize ...
The court ordered the state to release inmates as quickly as possible. Among other changes, legislators created a two-tier parole system that shifted inmates with nonviolent felonies to county ...
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Within months, local judges were hearing complaints about abusive staff, prison-like conditions and food full of maggots, according to recent interviews and state audits and court transcripts from the time. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Tom Petersen drove an hour and a half to Pahokee in 1997 and started snapping pictures.
(Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration can block cities and states from receiving Justice Department grants if they fail to help with federal immigration enforcement, a U.S. appeals court in ...
Dec. 19—Editor's Note: The Cullman Times is counting down the top stories of 2023. Here's No. 9. Thanks to statewide reform in sentencing for most Alabama inmates this year, Cullman County found ...