This training curriculum from the University of South Carolina College of Social Work was designed to offer essential, actionable information about mental health and mental illness to correctional officers and other safety-related correctional staff. It is...
After using a Justice Reinvestment approach, Massachusetts passed legislation that focuses on incentivizing good behavior, diverting people from incarceration to treatment and programming, and strengthening community supervision, among other measures. State leaders...
People who are leaving incarceration face a significantly higher risk of relapse, overdose, and overdose-related death than people in the general public. Because of these odds, reentry is a critical time to provide rapid access to pre- and post-release treatment as...
Hosted by the Safety and Justice Challenge Date: Monday, Dec. 10 Time: 3–4:30 p.m. ET Across the country, leaders from various systems and disciplines are talking about individuals who are frequently coming through their system, with recurrent admissions to emergency...
MPR News By Dan Gunderson When Clay County officials started planning to replace its jail, the oldest in the state, they gathered around a table to start building a wish list for the new jail’s design. “One of the first things we talked about, one of the...
