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Prisoner Re-Entry Employment - Overview (redirected from Prisoner Re-Entry Employment)

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Issue Brief

 

Prisoner Re-Entry Employment - Overview

 

 

Goal Statement   one sentence that further defines the topic


  • To provide job opportunities and job training essential for successful reentry into the community upon release from prison. 

 

Local/State/National Information    additional information on this topic at the local, state, national, global level


 

Policy Options / Model Programs   link to profiles of specific policies or program models, grouped by type 


Federal Reentry Employment Initiatives

    • National Employment Law Project
      • An organization that works to restore economic opportunities by addressing the need for social reform from the ground up. NELP develops and tests new policies at the local and state levels, then eventually strives to implement said policies at the national level. NELP has released several reports on new policies and reforms addressing the relationship between criminal records and employment.[1]
      • Some NELP reports on current fair hiring initiatives include:
      • Cities Pave the Way
    • Smart on Crime: Recommendations for the Administration and Congress
      • A report released for the 112th Congress and the Obama administration addressing problems in the state and federal criminal justice systems and recommendations of ways to address said problems"Part Three" of the report includes a section devoted to re-entry, which addresses several recommendations in regards to the relationship between criminal records and employment.[2]
      • These recommendations include:
        • Amending the "Higher Education Act"
          • This would extend Pell Grant eligibility for "in-prison" education programs so that incarcerated individuals can receive an education to be better prepared for the work world and to be more competitive in the overall hiring process[3]
        • Reauthorizing the "Workforce Investment Act"
        • Strengthening "Work Opportunity Tax Credit"

 

National Nonprofit Reentry Employment Organizations

 

State Government Reentry Employment Projects

 

Local Reentry Employment Programs

    • Sweet Beginnings 
      •  Sweet Beginnings is a wholly owned subsidiary of the North Lawndale Employment Network which began in 2004 and offers full-time transitional jobs for formerly incarcerated individuals and others with significant barriers to employment. This program teaches beekeeping 101 as well as, the commercial and manufacturing aspects of making beeline® products, i.e honey, beeswax, candles, and byproduct that the bee produces.

 

Local In-Prison and Reentry-Focused Employment Programs

    • The Sustainability Project 
    • Inmate Beekeeping Program 
      •  This program started in July 2011 and has expanded to four prison facilities in Florida. The training process is led by Florida’s department of agriculture, Dave Menendez. Approximately 20 inmates per year have gone through this program. Once training is complete, and released from prison. Inmates are provided the opportunity to attend a job interview, and work as a beekeeper under the supervisor of Mr. Menendez.  

 

Glossary of Terms   key words or phrases that the layperson needs to know to understand this issue  


  • The "Box:" refers to the Ban the Box initiative, which desires to remove the check box with the question, "Have you ever been convicted by a court?" from various applications (such as employment, housing, public benefits, insurance, loans, etc.)[7]
  • Prison Recidivism Rate: "Proportion of persons released from prison who are rearrested, reconvicted, or returned to custody within a specific time period. Typically, recidivism studies follow released offenders for three years following their release from prison or placement on probation."[8]
  • Recidivism: "Act of reengaging in criminal offending despite having been punished."[9]
  • Reentry (or "Re-Entry"): Refers to the transition of offenders from correctional facilities (i.e. prisons and jails) back into the community.[10]

 

 

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Footnotes

  1. http://www.nelp.org/index.php/content/content_issues/category/criminal_records_and_employment/
  2. http://www.besmartoncrime.org/index.php
  3. http://www.besmartoncrime.org/14_recommendations.php
  4. http://anewwayoflife.org/all-of-us-or-none/
  5. http://anewwayoflife.org/all-of-us-or-none/
  6. http://csgjusticecenter.org/reentry/the-reentry-and-employment-project/
  7. http://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/our-projects/allofus-or-none/ban-the-box-campaign/
  8. http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFiles/wwwpewtrustsorg/Reports/sentencing_and_corrections/State_Recidivism_Revolving_Door_America_Prisons%20.pdf.
  9. http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFiles/wwwpewtrustsorg/Reports/sentencing_and_corrections/State_Recidivism_Revolving_Door_America_Prisons%20.pdf.
  10. http://www.indy.gov/eGov/Council/Committees/Documents/RE-ENTRY/Re-entry%20Policy%20Study%20Commission%20-%20Definition%20of%20Re-entry.pdf

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