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Inforum North Dakota is trying to avoid a prison-building boom. The state has watched its prisons and jails fill up in recent years and has spent $64 million for construction and renovation of the new state penitentiary. Now the state faces the dauntin …

The Addiction Policy Forum will host CARA Family Day, named after the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA). It is an annual event that brings together families directly affected by addiction from all over the United States to advocate on beh …

Hosted by the Addiction Policy Forum This is the first in a series of courses on The Science of Addiction. Attendees and webinar participants will hear from Dr. Maureen Boyle, Chief Scientific Officer at the Addiction Policy Forum, about what science t …

The Hanley Family Foundation is accepting pre-proposals for grants to support organizations and programs that advance the diagnosis and treatment of alcohol dependency, chemical dependency, and addictive behaviors, including support for related researc …

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for Mental Health Services is seeking applications for FY 2018 Clinical Support System for Serious Mental Illness grants. The purpose of this program is to provide technical assista …

Hosted by the National Association of Counties in partnership with the Council of State Governments Justice Center. Date: Thursday, Feb. 15 Time: 2–3:15 p.m. ET More than 70 million adults in the U.S. have a criminal record and more than one million yo …

Hosted by the National Reentry Resource Center, with funding support from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance Date: Wednesday, Feb. 14 Time: 2–3:30 p.m. ET Many programs struggle to develop and maintain case plans that a …

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is seeking applications from State Statistical Analysis Centers to receive funding under the 2018 State Justice Statistics program. This program seeks to enhance these centers’ ability to collect, analyze, and pub …

This policy brief from the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF), the National Reentry Resource Center, and the CSG Justice Center  provides state and local policymakers as well as education and juvenile justice leaders with information about how they can …

The Crime Report By Edith Brady-Lunny and Ted Gest As states grapple with persistently high incarceration numbers, with more than two million people still in prisons and jails nationwide, the main focus has been on the back end of the justice system: r …

Does v. Stein hearing set for Feb 6 January 23, 2018 Robin  After more than a year since NARSOL was joined by NCRSOL and two John Doe plaintiffs in a civil rights challenge to North Carolina’s SORNA scheme, we finally have a hearing set before Judge Lo …

NARSOL is proud to announce that its vice chair, Robin W. Vander Wall, has been selected to serve as a Fellow in the 2018 Cohort of JustLeadershipUSA’s Leading with Conviction program. Each year, JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA) identifies effective and succe …

GreenBiz By Sarah Hicks The Prison Policy Initiative creates a yearly pie chart that details the makeup of the U.S. prison system. In 2017, 2.3 million U.S. citizens were imprisoned in 5,961 facilities nationwide, ranging from Indian Country jails to f …

U.S. News & World Report By Jonathan Mattise Gov. Bill Haslam touted a $30 million plan Monday that focuses on prevention, treatment and law enforcement to attack an opioid epidemic that kills at least three people a day in Tennessee. The Republica …

The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) is seeking applications for its 2018 Youth in Custody Certificate Program, which will be held at Georgetown University June 11–15, 2018. The training is designed to help leaders implement or accelerate syst …

Medical Xpress By Bert Gambini An assessment tool used by many jurisdictions within the juvenile justice system that is intended to help recognize the effects of adversity and trauma in children’s lives is not the best means of evaluating mental …

Fortune By Jennifer Alsever Richard Bronson made millions on Wall Street in the 1990s, but by 2005 he found himself destitute with no home and no money—and only his sister’s couch on which to sleep. No one would give him a job or even entertain the ide …

By CSG Justice Center Staff Ronald Forbes (left) sees great new things happening—and most of them are in his kitchen. A 55-year-old U.S. Army veteran, Forbes is on the brink of expanding his Oakland, California-based catering company in partnership wit …

By CSG Justice Center Staff In 2017, states continued to adopt cost-effective and data-driven solutions to improve public safety. Bipartisan majorities in Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota, and Rhode Island all successfully enacted hi …

KTVQ By Cat Hill HELENA – Montana state prisoners are getting another chance to overcome addiction. Department of Corrections officials announced Tuesday that 30 inmates are the first accepted into a new chemical dependency treatment program at t …