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Shasta County Day Reporting Center holds graduation ceremony for eight program participants
Eight Shasta County, California-area residents graduated from the Shasta County Day Reporting Center’s program on July 21, raising to 77 the number of former offenders who have successfully completed the
New Jersey officials tout smart criminal justice approach that leads to results
Over the past 15 years, New Jersey has seen significant reductions in its recidivism, prison population and crime rates, according to recent testimony from New Jersey State Parole Board’s Chairman
Luzerne County Reentry Service Center therapist receives national scholarship
Matt Shoener, Lead Therapist at the Luzerne County Reentry Service Center, received one of only two scholarships awarded nationally to attend the National Conference on Addiction Disorders conference this August
Orange County Resource Fair offers employment resources to former offenders
GEO Reentry Services, along with the Orange County Re-entry Partnership, the Orange County Public Defender’s Office, Contra Costa County Office of Education, and Taller San Jose Hope Builders, cosponsored the
Franklin County holds Reentry Coalition Summit to highlight reentry efforts
Franklin County held its first Reentry Coalition Summit on May 17 featuring such special guests as Pennsylvania Secretary of Corrections John Wetzel, who was instrumental in launching the Franklin County
Re-entry program provides new path for successful graduates
By Theresa Schmidt, Reporter KPLC 7 News, Lake Charles, Louisiana CALCASIEU PARISH, LA (KPLC) – There’s a saying – your life doesn’t get better by chance; it gets better by change.
Special program helping former inmates get their lives on track
April 27, 2016 5:19 PM By Dave Crawley PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — No one wants to go to prison. But once they’re out, what’s to keep former inmates from going right
Parolees in Santa Ana honored for graduation from reentry program
Parolees who successfully graduated from the Santa Ana Day Reporting Center, an intensive reentry program, were recently celebrated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and GEO Reentry Services,
Department of Justice announces National Reentry Week 2016
While GEO Care and its GEO Reentry Services division has been delivering reentry services for more than a decade, the importance of these services for offenders has gained public prominence
Journal: California reform measures did not affect crime rate
A large-scale study by researchers from major California universities found the state’s prison downsizing efforts have had little to no impact on the crime rate. The findings were published in The
Governors highlight justice reform in annual state of the state addresses
Nationwide, governors highlighted justice reinvestment, a data-driven approach for lowering corrections spending, in recent state of the state addresses. In this approach, cost savings are partially reinvested in strategies for
Reentry providers meet to discuss what works
In the largest event of its kind, more than 1,400 federally funded providers of reentry and mental health services convened recently for a pair of overlapping conferences aimed at sharpening
GEO Reentry residents help beat the blizzard in Newark
Residents of the GEO Reentry Services-run Newark Residential Reentry Service Center were praised in the local paper, The Star Ledger, recently for their help in the latest blizzard to overtake
Shasta County probationers celebrate graduation from day reporting center
Eighteen graduates of the Shasta County Day Reporting Center, run by GEO Reentry Services, recently celebrated their completion of the reentry program during a special ceremony known as a transition
Winter transition ceremony: A new lease on life for Alexandria, La. graduates
College students have been known to complain that their schoolwork is irrelevant to real life. However, for the nontraditional “students” of the Alexandria Day Reporting Center, it doesn’t get any
First Annual Sober Fest in Merced County celebrates sobriety
The first annual Sober Fest in Merced County was recently held to celebrate individuals recovering from drug and alcohol addictions on their road to sobriety. The event, hosted in collaboration
“Dress for Success” at Santa Ana DRC quite a success
The Santa Ana DRC recently hosted its first “Dress for Success” motivational speaker luncheon on Aug. 12. The event was put together by DRC staff to help participants dress professionally
Santa Ana DRC supports southern region parole offices in Torch Run
On June 4, Santa Ana DRC staff gathered up their running shoes and went for a two-mile jog with a group of active and retired parole agents from the southern region
North Carolina reentry programs celebrate participants’ graduation
The Treatment for Effective Community Supervision Service Centers in North Carolina, run by GEO Reentry Services, are in the midst of hosting their fall transition celebrations, which mark participants’ completion
County seeks to salvage funding for Sedgwick County Day Reporting Center
Sedgwick County and GEO Reentry Services, the operator of an innovative program for probationers, hosted an open house for local criminal justice officials and the media this week to highlight
Luzerne County Reentry Service Center celebrates 5-year anniversary
The Luzerne County Reentry Service Center, operated by GEO Reentry Services, recently celebrated its five-year anniversary in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in an event once again attended by the Wilkes-Barre Time Leader,