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The Marshall Project By Rahsaan Thomas The sun shines brightly through the gated windows so I grab a pair of Sony headphones and the Tascam (a portable audio recorder) and leave the office with my co-worker, John “Yahya” Johnson, an intellectual Muslim …

Marketplace By Natalie Moore Johnny Washington can’t remember the last time he lived in his own apartment. He’s struggled with heroin addiction for nearly 50 years and he’s been in and out of prison over the last 15 years. Washington, 66, has been work …

The Crime Report By Crime Report Staff State juvenile correctional agencies do a poor job of preparing youth in the juvenile justice system for employment, The Council of State Governments Justice Center says in a new report. States miss opportunities …

The Washington Post By Theresa Vargas Marcus Bullock was 15, in a maximum-security prison with men who had already spent decades behind bars, and he was thinking about his Christmas presents. His girlfriend had promised to buy him a T-shirt, and he cou …

Hosted by the National Association of Counties Date: Thursday, Oct. 10 Time: 2–3:15 p.m. ET Counties across the country are collaborating with systems partners to reduce the number of people with mental illnesses in their jails. Despite the progress th …

By The Council of State Governments Justice Center Staff Last year, Massachusetts passed legislation representing the most significant changes to the state’s criminal justice system in decades. This legislation took concrete steps to incentivize good b …

The Seattle Times By Asia Fields When the MacArthur Foundation called Lisa Daugaard to tell her she’d been selected for a prestigious fellowship, she didn’t answer. Daugaard thought the calls were coming from a telemarketer, and she had a lot on her mi …

MassLive By Anne-Gerard Flynn Holyoke Medical Center will use a state SHIFT grant to “enhance timely access to behavioral health care” for opioid-dependent individuals and help advance their treatment beyond avoidable costly stays in acute care setting …

The Texas Tribune By Jolie McCullough Tears often filled the eyes of the women in this Texas prison town as they prepared for their upcoming release from the system after years or even decades of incarceration. The women sometimes wiped them away as th …

City & State By Annie McDonough New York City is failing individuals experiencing mental health crises, a new report from the office of New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams finds, but Williams has a proposal for an approach to interventio …

Hosted by The Council of State Governments Justice Center with funding support from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance Date: Tuesday, Oct. 8 Time: 2–3 p.m. ET Increasingly, law enforcement officers are called on to be the fir …

Drawing on first-of-its-kind survey data collected from all 50 states in partnership with the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators, this new brief from The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center establishes an unprecedented baseli …

By The Council of State Governments Justice Center Staff Crisis stabilization units are now operational in Craighead, Pulaski, Sebastian, and Washington counties in Arkansas. A man who was suicidal and homeless, a woman found wandering on the median of …

MPR News By Alisa Roth When someone is experiencing a mental health crisis, often the only alternatives are jail or an emergency room. Neither of those alternatives is particularly helpful, and sometimes they can make a person’s condition worse. Nation …

KyForward.com By KyForward.com Staff Gov. Matt Bevin has announced a new statewide public awareness effort to continue the Commonwealth’s historic momentum in combating the opioid epidemic. The Governor’s Office, in collaboration with the Kentucky Just …

Hosted by the National Reentry Resource Center with funding support from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance Date: Wednesday, Sept. 25 Time: 1–2 p.m. ET In 2019, The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center part …

By The Council of State Governments Justice Center Staff Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com A growing body of research has shown that cognitive-behavioral interventions (CBIs) can significantly reduce recidivism by helping people understand and ch …

The Washington Post By John Dixon and Eric Tars In an era of bad news, here’s a rare piece of good: The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty recently helped strike down an antiquated Virginia law allowing police to arrest and imprison peop …

Hosted by the National Reentry Resource Center with funding support from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention  Date: Monday, Sept. 23 Time: 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. ET In 2016, the Office of Juvenile Justice …

The New York Times By Sandra E. Garcia The American Civil Liberties Union said it had reached a settlement with a federal prison in Kansas that had denied buprenorphine, an opioid addiction medication, to an inmate who the group said would “inevitably …