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The Birmingham Reentry Alliance will provide wrap-around services to dozens of men and women adjusting to life after prison. Read more.

There's a new intitaive in birmingham to support incarcerated indivduals re-entering the community.

FAYETTEVILLE -- The arrival of SuperPrep All-American and Conway High School star Peyton Hillis at the University of Arkansas in 2004 was the first piece to one of the greatest backfields ever assembled in college football.

One day in October 2021, Michael Morrison finished a 10-hour work shift in Trussville. He got in a car with a cousin to go back to Miles College in Fairfield, where he was a student. His cousin made a stop an apartment complex in Hoover. As Morrison remembers, his cousin returned with marijuana. They drove […] The post Pretrial diversion programs are effective. And expensive for participants. appeared first on Alabama Reflector.

Programs intended to reduce the chances that someone will end up back behind bars are working, according to a new analysis of California state data. A new report finds that people who participated in a social program funded by Proposition 47 had a recidivism rate of 15.3% compared with 35% to 45% for people traditionally incarcerated by the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. Linda Penner, chairperson of the California Board of State and Community Corrections, which produced the report, is supportive. ...