Members serve on seven work groups focused on these topics:
Education, workforce development and economic opportunity;
Prison, jail and detention facility reform;
Promoting successful re-entry and preventing reincarceration;
Criminal law and sentencing reform;
Health and human services;
and law enforcement policies and practices.
Group making gains on recommendations to reduce mass incarceration - Maryland Matters
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The goal is to complete a rough draft of recommendations by August and then a final report by January.Companies giving second chances to formerly incarcerated people get funding
Companies giving second chances to formerly incarcerated people get funding
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County leaders will reimburse businesses that hire returning citizens through Employ Prince George’s.Comment on Facebook County leaders will ...
“What we know is that these investments not only enhance the lives of the people that we invest in, but they also bring something great to our communities and to our businesses,” Alsobrooks said in an interview.
By Olinda Moyd
The writer is director of the Decarceration and Re-Entry Clinic at American University’s Washington College of Law and a board member at the Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform.
Opinion: On mass incarceration, "we are all part of the problem" - Maryland Matters
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For the last several decades we have sat idly by as our jails and prison populations have swelled and sentences have become more excessive.
