Suitts, Steve, Katherine Dunn, Nasheed Sabree. Southern Education Foundation (SEF) (Atlanta, GE).

According to the report, juvenile justice programs that help prevent young people from becoming re-offenders could save society about $3.9 million per youth. This report highlights several programs showing that education in juvenile justice programs can be successful.

Sarah K. Hogarth, editor. Prisoner Reentry Institute, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (New York, NY)

Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center (New York, NY).

"This guide lists the available research on the effectiveness and best practices of residential reentry centers (commonly known as halfway houses). Corrections and reentry professionals can use this compendium guide to review the most relevant resources informing halfway house practices."

Labrecque, Ryan M., Myrinda Schweitzer, and Paula Smith. George Mason University, Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE!) (Fairfax, VA).

This article discusses "the findings of a study examining the effect training on CCPs has on subsequent officer use of [supervision] skills" (p. 21).

Roman, Caterina G. and Nathan Link. Temple University (Philadelphia, PA).

In this report we describe the characteristics of adult male returning prisoners with child support orders and debt, and examine whether participation in SVORI was associated with greater services receipt than those in the comparison groups (for relevant services such as child-support services, employment preparation, and financial and legal assistance).

Morenoff, Jeffrey D. and David J. Harding. Annual Review of Sociology

"This review focuses on two complementary questions regarding incarceration, prisoner reentry, and communities: (1) whether and how mass incarceration has affected the social and economic structure of American communities, and (2) how residential neighborhoods affect the social and economic reintegration of returning prisoners."

A professional overview of the Las Colinas Detention & Reentry Facility located in San Diego, California.

"The purpose of this cross-jurisdictional inaugural event is to advance evidence-based and promising reentry practices throughout the Bureau of Prisons, in each of the 50 states, and within the country's largest local jail systems."

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards approved legislation that will, beginning Aug. 1, 2017, prohibit the state’s public universities from asking applicants about their criminal backgrounds.

National Employment Law Project.

This article reviews two recent studies on "Ban the Box". It concludes the studies do not show the "Ban the Box" policy as detrimental to young men of color who do not have a conviction record.