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January 1, 2009 | Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, Will Bunch, a journalist with the Philadelphia Daily News, looks at Health Link, an early prisoner re-entry program that ran between 1992 and 2002 and was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program tested the idea of caseworkers helping recently released inmates with jobs, education, health, housing and other social services.
July 1, 2008 | Issue Brief
The prevalence of drug use among criminal offenders and the positive rate of growth in the already large incarcerated population, strongly suggest a need to fund cost-effective substance abuse interventions in criminal justice settings.
July 24, 2006 | Program Result
The University of Miami compared the costs of in-prison and aftercare substance abuse treatment services for criminal offenders with the savings resulting from fewer days of reincarceration.
June 1, 2001 | Program Result
Johnson, Bassin & Shaw, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in substance abuse and juvenile justice issues, helped convene a national conference on youth substance abuse and the juvenile justice system.
August 1, 2006 | Program Result
Brown University examined rearrests among substance-abusing prison inmates to determine whether the costs of providing different levels of substance abuse treatment while incarcerated were offset by savings.
November 1, 2003 | Program Result
Criminal justice researchers and practitioners, community leaders, former prisoners and policy-makers convened at the Reentry Roundtable to discuss research and policy regarding prisoner reentry and its impact on individuals, families and communities.