The 25th Annual National Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (TASC) Conference will focus on drugs, crime, and reentry while bringing together hundreds of people from around the country to explore the latest advancements and issues in the treatment and...
By CSG Justice Center Staff The state of Oregon has begun work on a data-driven approach to address challenges in how the state responds to people in the criminal justice system who have mental illnesses and substance addictions. Members of Oregon’s Behavioral Health...
The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is offering Thinking For A Change (T4C) Facilitator Training for FY 2019 to qualified criminal justice professionals or qualifying government contractors. Through this host agency partnership, NIC provides qualified T4C...
Hosted by the SAMHSA–HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions Date: Monday, July 16 Time: 1–2:30 p.m. ET Approximately 20 percent of people in jails have a serious mental illness and 26 percent meet the threshold for serious psychological distress in the past 30...
The Marshall Project By Eli Hager Growing up in public housing in North Charleston, S.C., in the 1970s, David Hayward was familiar with poverty, violence and loss. His mother, grandmother and brother all died when he was young, and his father was in prison. He became...