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Restorative Approach to Youth Justice Contributes to 60% Drop in Incarceration

Department of Justice reveals significant drop in juvenile incarceration in new report.

By Prison Fellowship
June 12, 2019
department of justice | Youth Justice
declining incarceration rates
  • Advocacy & Reentry
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Incarceration, Crime Rates Continue to Fall

Crime and incarceration rates are down in the United States.

According to the Department of Justice Bureau of Statistics, the national violent and property crime rate has declined by 14.6 percent in the last five years. During that same time, the U.S.

By Emily Harris Greene
January 4, 2017
Bureau of Statistics | crime rates | department of justice | incarceration rates | Prison Reform
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Identifying a Problem in Reentry

Most of us have them in our wallets or purses right now—little laminated cards with our names and a typically bad photograph that identifies who we are and where we live. They are of vital importance to any number of routine tasks, be it cashing a check, purchasing an airline ticket, or applying for a job.

By Steve Rempe
August 16, 2016
department of justice | ID Cards | Identification | Loretta Lynch | Reentry | Second Prison Project
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What’s in a Name?

Titles and labels serve an important role in modern society. It is unlikely anyone would submit to surgery to someone who didn’t respond to the title “doctor,” and few of us would let anyone touch our finances if they didn’t have the initials “C.P.A.”

By Steve Rempe
May 10, 2016
department of justice | Karol Mason | Office of Justice Programs | Second Prison Project
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A Dream Realized

It was just a few months before Chuck went home to Jesus. We were sitting in his home in Naples, Florida, and he was “schooling” me, as he did several times in the nine months he and I were together at Prison Fellowship.

By Jim Liske
January 26, 2015
Chuck Colson | Chuck Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections | department of justice | Restoration | Task Force
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How Does the Government Shutdown Affect the Justice System?

While we slept last night, Congress found itself in a stalemate on the terms of the Affordable Healthcare Act, propelling the U.S. federal government into its first shutdown in 17 years.

By Rebekah L. Stratton
October 1, 2013
Bureau of Prisons | congress | department of justice | government shutdown | habeas corpus | Prison Fellowship | shutdown | supreme court | u.s. parole commission

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