Featured Links
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Understanding the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry:
Research Findings from the Urban Institute's Prisoner Reentry Portfolio (Jan 2006)

Providence Community Resource Network

Housing
"We Are Here To Stay" - report from the RI Family Life Center
Employment & Education
Books through Bars
Advocacy & Legal
After Prison: Roadblocks to Reentry (Legal Action Center)
Media
Reentry National Outreach Media Campaign

Children & Families
Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education (RISE)

Health
RAND: Brief on Prisoner Reentry Health Challenges
Government
National Center on Institutions and Alternatives
Faith-based
FASTEN- Reentry programs toolkit

News:

08-12-06>> "Help for the Hardest Part of Prison: Staying Out" NY Times article outlines Prisoner Re-entry in Providence, as part of their Time Served series, exploring what happens when convicts leave prison and return to their communities.
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02-24-06>> RI Family Life Center featured in the Providence Phoenix article, "There’s more to justice than prison"

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RI Family Life Center

Provides support and advocacy for the reintegration of ex-offenders into the community with the goals of reducing recidivism, removing barriers to reintegration, and strengthening families.


RI Department of Corrections Reentry

"Ex-inmates have gone from America's most wanted to America's least wanted. The churning of repeat offenders through the system poses a risk to public safety and contributes to rising correctional costs."

~ A.T. Wall, II, RIDOC director

The Providence Plan
Reentry pages

Neighborhood-level Maps and Data for Released Offenders, Sentenced Commits,Crime, Demographics, Services, Cost of Incarceration.

Content available for Statewide RI, Central Falls, Newport, Pawtucket, Providence, and Woonsocket.

Part of the Information for Change Project

US Department of Justice Reentry

Resource for funding opportunities, publications, statistics, trainings, and more.

Urban Institute Reentry

Home of the Reentry Mapping Network (RMN). Background and knowledge base for reentry issues. Links to national research and state/local reports.

Funded by Providence Weed and Seed, United States Department of Justice
Maintained by the Providence Plan		 ACI image courtesy of RGB