Reentry Solutions
Reentry Solutions
Foster the reintegration of former prisoners into their communities.
Overview
The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that the number of parolees has risen to 4.3 million and that an additional 630000 persons will be released from state and federal prisons in the next year. Researchers Christopher Uggen Melissa Thompson and Jeff Manza estimate that number of current and former felons exceeds 13 million which constitutes 6.5 percent of the adult U.S. population and a staggering 37 percent of Black males. Despite this few resources have been devoted to develop an infrastructure to support community reintegration or address the institutional roadblocks that prevent ex prisoners from re entering their communities in healthy and productive ways. Discrimination against former prisoners in employment housing education and benefits contributes to high rates of recidivism. Reentry Solutions promotes the reintegration of former prisoners through community education leadership development and policy reform. Based in Oakland California it builds organizational networks and initiates statewide reentry justice organizing campaigns in California Texas and New York states that account for more than one third of all former prisoners.
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