Rehabilitation Corner

New app would simplify justice system assistance

January 31, 2021 by Vincent O'Bannon

A mobile app is being developed to help connect criminal defendants and other justice-impacted people to services and resources otherwise hard to … [Read more...]

The Beat Within, November 2020

November 26, 2020 by John Lam

Your writing should reflect a positive message that helps the youth make better decisions in life. Your stories will be read by the youth in detention … [Read more...]

What’s really needed are paths to good jobs

September 30, 2020 by Aly Tamboura

To stop the revolving door between poverty and incarceration, the more than 70 million Americans who are justice-involved need access to employment … [Read more...]

Resources: Correspondence reading guide by mail Point Global Outreach

September 30, 2020 by Administrators

Correspondence reading guide by mailPoint Global Outreach provides a free 29-pageResource Directory for Prisoners. This directory … [Read more...]

New reentry group – API RISE – in Los Angeles

September 30, 2020 by John Lam

A nonprofit organization in Los Angeles is pioneering ways to help formerly incarcerated Asian Pacific Islanders (APIs) resettle and reconnect back to … [Read more...]

YOU WILL HAVE A HOME

September 30, 2020 by Administrators

https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/covid-19-response-efforts/#R https://roadmap.rootandrebound.org/housing/looking-for-identifying-good-housing-options … [Read more...]

Pelican Bay’s new podcast ‘UNLOCKED’

March 16, 2020 by Vincent O'Bannon

Creators of a new Pelican Bay podcast look to build community and prisoner relationships—one story at a time, reported the Lost Coast … [Read more...]

Storytellers polish their craft through the San Quentin News Journalism Guild

March 16, 2020 by Anthony Manuel Caravalho

The second annual San Quentin News Journalism Guild Graduation took place in the Garden Chapel on Jan. 17. Twelve graduates from November’s class … [Read more...]

CDCR leader and others seek prison reform answers in Norway

March 16, 2020 by Ike Dodson

Secretary Diaz calls for a sense of urgency for prison reforms As they covered 5,000 miles and an ocean on an international flight on Sept. 14, … [Read more...]

Newsom proposes reducing probation and boosting rehabilitation programs

March 16, 2020 by Dillon Kim

Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing major changes in California’s criminal justice system by reducing probation to two years and boosting rehabilitation … [Read more...]