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December 4, 2009 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the Urban Institute analyzed the characteristics and experiences of former prisoners returning from prison to homes in Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland and Houston.
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.
December 23, 2009 | Program Result Report
The commission sought to influence drug policies and practices, held African-American drug policy summits, worked in communities around the country on drug policy issues and disseminated the commission's policy recommendations.
April 1, 2007 | Journal Article
The study's objective focused on the experience of Hurricane Katrina's evacuees to better understand factors influencing evacuation decisions in impoverished, mainly minority communities that were most severely affected by the disaster.
September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The Community Justice Institute at Florida Atlantic University conducted a national study designed to answer basic questions about restorative conferencing, an alternative to court for juvenile crime offenders.
June 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
Project staff at the Urban Institute commissioned seven research-based discussion papers by leading experts in the field of public health and prisoner reentry, and sponsored a two-day conference based on issues and findings detailed in the papers.
April 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The National Crime Prevention Council convened Alcohol Policy XII, "Alcohol and Crime: Research and Practice for Prevention," which took place June 11-14, 2000 in Washington.
November 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
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.
December 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Hepatitis C Awareness Project expanded circulation of the Hepatitis C Awareness News and developed a Web site to provide incarcerated adults with information about hepatitis C, a blood-borne virus that causes cirrhosis of the liver.
September 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
National Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities, a consortium of TASC programs, held its Seventh Annual National Conference on Drugs and Crime on October 22-25, 2000, in Orlando, Fla.