“What will secure us is embracing an abolitionist imagination that forces us beyond the ...
Criminal justice
rssMaryland Governor Signs Bill Into Law Establishing Behavioral Health and Public Safety Center of Excellence
In November 2020, SAMHSA’s GAINS Center hosted the State Summit on Behavioral Health and the ...
More than Books: New Jersey Libraries Provide a Fresh Start for Returning Citizens
In New Jersey and Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, people returning from incarceration have a ...
Promoting Access to Justice through Trauma-Informed Courts
By Sarai Cook, Esq., Servant Leader, National Trauma Awareness Initiative Trauma Is a Courtroom ...
Q&A with Mark Restivo
You are a former New York City police Department officer. When you were ...
Advocating from Experience: Peers Serving the Legal Needs of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated People
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC), based in Oakland, California, began serving women ...
Q&A with Victoria Westbrook
As the Women’s Gender Responsive Coordinator for the Reentry Division of the San Francisco ...
MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge Behavioral-Health Focused Expansion, the IMPACT Network, Announces Members
Building on significant momentum for evidence-based reforms to local justice systems, the John D. ...
Q&A with Elena Kravitz, CPRP
As one of New Jersey’s leading trainers on psychiatric advance directives, you have taken ...
CJCares Community Paramedics: Reducing Frequent Emergency Service Use by Connecting High Utilizers to Appropriate Care Services
Community paramedicine enables paramedics or emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to provide a range of ...
Meeting Needs and Reducing Recidivism: Washington’s Offender Reentry Community Safety Program
Washington State is cutting its recidivism rates nearly in half among individuals with a ...
Q&A with Neil Campbell, M.S.
As Executive Director of the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse, you are a passionate ...