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An executive order directs state agencies to improve reentry services and fix a broken system that failed me and thousands of others released from prison into homelessness each year. Read Phillip Vance Smith II’s experience as he left incarceration to …

Pitt Community College and the Local Reentry Council provided Eastern Carolina leaders with a better understanding of the struggles those with criminal backgrounds face when reentering society Tuesday.

UNC’s Media Hub takes an in-depth look at Dennis Gaddy, head of the Community Success Initiative, and his mission — overcoming the obstacles to regaining the right to vote for people who have gone to prison.   Read More

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed an executive order on Wednesday restoring the right to vote to many state residents with felony convictions. 

The Second Chance Act, SB 562, is now on Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk, to either approve or veto. It contains numerous changes related to helping people expunge their criminal records — both for people who had charges against them dropped or, in some cases, for people who were convicted for nonviolent crimes but have since gone for years without getting in trouble again.

The Second Chance Act, SB 562, is now on Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk, to either approve or veto. It contains numerous changes related to helping people expunge their criminal records — both for people who had charges against them dropped or, in some cases, for people who were convicted for nonviolent crimes but have since gone for years without getting in trouble again.

The Second Chance Act, SB 562, is now on Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk, to either approve or veto. It contains numerous changes related to helping people expunge their criminal records — both for people who had charges against them dropped or, in some cases, for people who were convicted for nonviolent crimes but have since gone for years without getting in trouble again.

North Carolina state prison inmates are likely facing unlawful “cruel or unusual punishments” in part because correction officials have failed to offer widespread COVID-19 testing within all correctional facilities, a judge said.

Faye Brown, an inmate at NCCIW in Raleigh, died on May 6 from complications of COVID-19.

Protesters calling attention to conditions inside state prisons took to the streets to voice their concerns and honk their horns at Central Prison in Raleigh.

On Friday, about 70 citizens from Second Chance Alliance gathered to show love and support for offenders housed at the Neuse Correctional Institution in Goldsboro. Members of the Alliance drove past the local prison honking their horns and waving at the inmates that were able to look out their windows and wave back at the group.

Judge Rozier has ordered the Department of Public Safety to take immediate steps to keep incarcerated people safe from COVID-19 — including moving beds six feet apart, providing full access to soap and alcohol-based hand sanitizer, and providing masks that are the same quality as the masks that staff get.

The global spread of COVID-19 has had a huge impact on those incarcerated, leaving them incredibly vulnerable to illness. As North Carolina shelters in place to save lives, join us in asking YOUR county sheriff to do everything they can to keep incarcerated people safe.

CSI and other coalition partners are demanding the immediate release of hundreds of incarcerated people from the North Carolina prisons. COVID-19 is a crisis inside prisons and jails. We have seen the virus spread out of control in these overcrowded an …

On Tuesday, February 4, the Second Chance Alliance, CSI and the NAACP NC held Second Chance Alliance Night at Shaw University.

On Saturday, February 1, the Second Chance Alliance launched its Wake County Chapter. Dennis Gaddy and CSI hosted the event in Raleigh. Over 100 people attended.

Rod Williams spoke from the heart. He also spoke from experience. Williams, on Saturday morning, shared his story of life after incarceration with community leaders who showed up at the Harnett County Public Library to hear more about N.C. Second Chance Alliance, an organization created to help people just like him.

On Tuesday, February 4, the Second Chance Alliance, CSI and the NAACP NC held Second Chance Alliance Night at Shaw University.