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2021

NY Cannabis Law is National Blueprint for Pot Expungement (June 2021, Law360) 

Open Letter Urges City Council to Pass Fair Chance for Housing Act from Harlem to Hollis (June 2021, Harlem World Magazine)

New York’s Inflexible Parole System Hindering Second Chances, Advocates Say (May 2021, Zenger News)

Biden Falls Short on Criminal Justice Reform in First 100 Days (May 2021, Law360) 

Senior Spotlight: [Pinkerton Fellow] Jesse Funtleyer `21 Aspires to Become a Mental Health Counselor, Helping At-Risk Youth and System-Impacted Individuals (April 2021, John Jay College)

Alumna Nakia Greene ’18 Reflects on Her Journey to Academic Excellence and a Career with the Institute fro Justice and Opportunity (April 2021, John Jay College) 

‘I Felt I was being Renounced By My Own Community;’ Report Aims to Help People Helm Unregulated Criminal Background Checks (March 2021, New York Daily News)

How Tenant Screening Reports Make It Hard for People to Bounce Back From Tough Times (March 2021, Consumer Reports)

A Hedge Fund’s Bet on Criminal Justice (February 2021, The New York Times)

Incarcerated Students With Life Sentences Are Missing From Inclusion Conversations, Advocates Say (February 2021, Diverse Education) 

How Background Checks Harm Formerly Incarcerated People (January 2021, Listings Project)

‘Background Checks and Blocked Opportunities’: A Guide to Navigating Reentry (January 2021, The Crime Report)

Ashland University’s prison program sits at the center of national controversy (January 2021, Open Campus Media)
*This piece also appears in Craine’s Cleveland.

2020

How Trump Made a Tiny Christian College the Nation’s Biggest Prison Educator (December 2020, The Marshall Project)

Biden and Nonprofits: Racial Justice (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, December 2020) 

Released From Prison Early Because of COVID-19 (Vice, October 2020)

‘The Writing on the Walls’ Finds Poetry Behind Bars, Projects It Onto Buildings (NPR, October 2020) 

Why Are Jail Phone Calls So Expensive? (CBS News, October 2020) 

‘It’s a Scarlet Letter That Never Leaves You’: NYC Council Bill Would Help Ex-Offenders By Barring Landlords’ Criminal Record Checks (New York Daily News, October 2020)

De Blasio Administration Fails to Provide Proper Reentry Services for Those Leaving Jail Amid Pandemic, Providers Say (Gotham Gazette, October 2020)

NYCHA’s Rules Are Too Draconian (New York Daily News, September 2020) 

Prison Visits Have Been Suspended for Six Months. Here’s What It’s Been Like for Families (Tampa Bay Times, September 2020) 

Fair Chance for Housing (YouTube, September 2020) 

Efforts to End Racism Must Include Dismantling Housing Discrimination (Gotham Gazette, August 2020) by Devone Nash, a College Initiative alum and member of the Institute’s Fair Chance for Housing Coalition

New York City’s Public Housing Rules Could Force Many Released Prisoners Into Homelessness (The Appeal, July 2020)

Both Side of the Bars | Fair Chance for Housing Before, During, and After COVID-19 (Manhattan Neighborhood Network, July 2020)

Criminal Justice Advocates Demand Incarceration-Related Housing Reform (Kings County Politics, June 2020)

Hotels for detainees? Funding for Temporary COVID-19 Program Nearing End (AMNY, June 2020)

Can College Programs in Prisons Survive COVID-19? (The Marshall Project, May 2020)
*This piece also appears in Mother Jones and The 74 Million. 

Trinity Church Wall Street Provides $2.425 Million to Assist Vulnerable New Yorkers During COVID-19 Crisis (Episcopal News Service, April 2020)

As COVID-19 Ravage Florida, Incarcerated People are Still Doing the State’s Hard Outdoor Labor (The Appeal, April 2020)

2019

With Push from Cuomo and Funding from Vance, New York College-in-Prisons Program is Flourishing (Gotham Gazette, December 2019)

How to raise the quality of prison education programs (University Business, October 2019)

John Jay Research Directors Tackle Tough Criminal Justice Issues (John Jay College News, September 2019)

After Inquirer probe, Philly jails will release prisoners earlier and with all of their belongings (The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2019)

Silverman: Philadelphia’s leadership needs to adopt a culture of continuous improvement (Philadelphia Business Journal, August 2019)

Teaching a Writing Workshop at Otisville Correctional Facility (John Jay College News, August 2019)

Each night, Philly jails release scores of inmates without returning their IDs, cash or phones (The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2019)

Bianca van Heydoorn and Aviva Tevah appointed to city’s new Office of Reentry Partnerships (Generocity, August 2019)

Repeal of 1990s policy could transform prison education in New York (Times Union, August 2019)

Who’s Helping The 1.9 Million Women Released From Prison And Jails Each Year? (WitnessLA, July 2019)

The Prisoner Reentry Institute Celebrates Its Annual College Initiative Graduation (John Jay College News, July 2019)

Manafort’s Detour From Rikers (The New York Times, June 2019)

A $1.5 million grant aims to expand educational and reentry programs for currently and formerly incarcerated people (NYN Media, June 2019)

With $3.3 Million in New Funding, Mellon Foundation Increases Investment in Funding Prison Education and Re-entry Programs (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, June 2019)

John Jay College’s Prisoner Reentry Institute Receives a $1.5 Million Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (John Jay College News, June 2019)

Mellon Foundation Awards $3.3 Million for Prison Education, Reentry (Philanthropy News Digest, June 2019)

Andrew Mellon Foundation Awards $3.3 Million to Prison Education Programs (Insight into Diversity, June 2019)

The Prisoner Reentry Institute Celebrates Its First Navigator Certificate Graduation (John Jay College News, June 2019)

How a Top Foundation is Betting Big on Prison Education and Reentry (Inside Philanthropy, June 2019)

Senior Spotlight: Brenneis Nesbitt `19 Envisions a Career in Law (John Jay College News, May 2019)

BMCC Symposium Highlights Educational Opportunity for Justice-Involved Students (BMCC News, May 2019)

Barbering Behind Bars: Using A Community Cornerstone For Criminal Justice Reform (Huffington Post, April 2019)

John Jay’s PRI Advocates to Expand Alternative-to-Incarceration and Reentry Services in New York State (John Jay College News, February 2019)

2018

Ann Jacobs says prisoner parents need contact with their children (Radio New Zealand, October 2018)

Letter: Alison Wilkey: Second chance for people benefits our entire society (Providence Journal, October 2018)

Hickman’s Farms Builds Reentry Housing for Arizona Employees Coming out of Prison (KJZZ, August 2018)

Training The Brain To Stay Out of Jail (The Marshall Project, June 2018)

NYC Agency Uses Brooklyn Gang Raid to Encourage Evictions of Entire Families from Public Housing (In Justice Today, January 2018)

Kicked to curb by NYCHA  (Letter to the Editor, NY Daily News, January 2018)

2017

A House for Women Leaving Prison Sits Empty (The New York Times, December 2017)

Programs Let Inmates Earn University Degree While in Prison (VOA Learning English, December 2017)

Female Inmates In Indiana Pitch Plan To Rehab Empty Houses — And Their Lives (Cape and Islands, November 2017)

Getting ‘Life,’ by Saving My Life (Women’s eNews, November 2017)

Returning Inmates Need ‘A Place to Call Home:’ Study (The Crime Report, October 2017)

Second Chances: The Funders Bringing College into Prisons (Inside Philanthropy, October 2017)

Formerly Incarcerated Woman Builds Hope in the Bronx (Medium, October 2017)

Breastfeeding Behind Bars: Do All Moms Deserve the Right? (Huffington Post, September 2017)

How a New York Police Official Targets Thoughts to Fight Crime (Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, August 2017)

College After prison? New Louisiana Law Makes it Easier (Christian Science Monitor, July 2017)

NYN Media Insights Podcast on Women and Rikers (New York Nonprofit Media, June 2017)

NYC Justice Corps ‘Won’t Let You Give Up’ (The Crime Report, June 2017)

Next 100 Days: State Drops Prisoner Medical Move Because of Trump Rhetoric (City Limits, May 2017)

Women in Rikers: Why Gender Matters When We Talk About Reform (City & State, May 2017)

Women Behind Bars (MetroFocus, April 2017)

Evictions Aren’t the Answer, Say Advocates, After Investigations Dept. Slams NYCHA (City Limits, April 2017)

From Cons to Coders: How Some U.S. Prisons Are Teaching Tech (A&E TV, March 2017)

Patchwork of Education Programs for NY Prisoners Who Want to Get Out and Stay Out (City Limits, January 2017)

Many Inmates Move from Prison to Shelters, Despite Efforts to Get Them Homes (City Limits, January 2017)

2016

Leveling the Playing Field, Inside a Low Profile Anti-Poverty Foundation (Inside Philanthropy, December 2016)

Brinks murders: Judith Clark may be released (Lohud, December 2016)

Life Beyond Bars: One Man’s Journey From Prison to College (The New York Times, November 2016)

Under the Radar, Fighting the Good Fight (The Huffington Post, November 2016)

Prison History’s Horror and Hope (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 2016)

After 22-Year Ban, Pilot PELL Program for Incarcerated Students Kicks Off (Truthout, September 2016)

Conference Examines Brown’s Role in Prison Education System (The Brown Daily Herald, September 2016)

College Education in Prison (The New York Times, September 2016)

Educating Prisoners Saves Money and Lives: ‘Give a Brother a Chance’ (Village Voice, September 2016)

Rethinking America’s Criminal Justice System, With Lessons From Abroad (WBUR 90.9, September 2016)

Is Nature the Key to Rehabilitating Prisoners? (Outside Online, September 2016)

Flipping the Script: Exploring the Prison-to-College Pipeline (Sojourners, August 2016)

Watch: Second Chance Pell Convening (Vera Institute Video Playlist, July 2016)

Back on Their Feet, and Finding Their Voice (Metro, July 2016)

Thousands of New York-Area Inmates to Get Federal Funds for College Education (The Wall Street Journal, July 2016)

Five Voices on Reforming the Front End of Justice (The Marshall Project, July 2016)

Black Americans Incarcerated Five Times More Than White People – Report (The Guardian, June 2016)

Unlocking Potential: Changing the way we think about prison and education (Vera Institute’s Think Justice Blog, May 2016)

Permanent-Ban Policy in Public Housing Under Review (The Wall Street Journal, May 2016)

How New York State Plans to Fund Major Criminal-Justice Reforms with Wall Street Money (The Atlantic, January 2016)

Prison Film Program Fosters Creative Edutainment (EBONY, January 2016)

2015

Readers Sound Off on Public Safety, Prison Violence, and Universal Peace (New York Daily News, December 2015)

Think It’s Hard Finding a Place to Live? Try Doing So With a Criminal Record (The Nation, November 2015)

Non-Profit Teaches Released Convicts To Create Home Furnishings And New Lives (CBS New York, October 2015)

What to Know About the 6,000 Federal Prisoners Being Released (TIME, October 2015)

The Government’s Early Release of Prisoners Is a Big Social-Science Experiment (New York Magazine, October 2015)

Feds Launch Pilot College Program for Prisoners (Black Press USA, September 2015)

Punished for Being Poor (Pacific Standard Magazine, September 2015)

Feds Launch Pilot College Program for Prisoners (Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, September 2015)

After Ferguson, States Struggle to Crack Down on Court Debt (Pew Charitable Trusts Stateline Blog, August 2015)

What the Experts Say About Offering Pell Grants to Prisoners (The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 2015)

Advocates Praise Federal Move to Restore Pell Grants for Prisoners (NBC News, August 2015)

A New Way to Treat Women’s Mental Health in Prison (Al Jazeera, July 2015)

Can higher ed keep inmates from returning to prison after release? (PBS New Hour, July 2015)

The U.S. Hosts 25 Percent Of The World’s Prison Population — These Are The Consequences (MTV, July 2015)

These Programs Are Helping Prisoners Live Again On The Outside (Huffington Post, July 2015)

You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What? (The New York Times, July 2015)

Study with the Best: CUNY and Criminology (CUNY TV, June 2015)

Life After Jail: Experts Tell Us What The ‘OITNB’ Ladies Would Have To Deal With IRL (MTV, June 2015)

NYCHA Questioned on Policy of Banning Arrested Residents (City Limits, June 2015)

Are video visits a smart innovation for jails—or yet another way to exploit families? (Quartz Magazine, April 2015)

Justice Corps Educator Irvin Weathersby Jr. on Education’s Role in Reversing Mass Incarceration (The Atlantic, March 2015)

Malik Yoba and Iconic32 Host a Live Screening of “Empire” to Raise Money for P2CP (Fox5NY – YouTube, March 2015)

‘Prison to college’ Programme Builds Brighter Futures (Al Jazeera, February 2015)

[P2CP] Alumna Taniya Dewan Selected to Prestigious Internship with the Executive Office of the President (John Jay Website, January 2015)

2014

Expert Advocates Freeing Minds of Prisoners to See Potential (Diverse Issues in Higher Education, December 2014)

NYC ‘Sober Homes’ Operators Accused of Fraud (The Crime Report, October 2014)

5 States’ Innovative Ways To Keep People From Behind Bars (Nation Swell, October 2014)

In Ferguson, a System of Injustice Through Fines (The New York Times, September 2014)

There’s No Point in Releasing Prisoners, Ever—Unless We Do This (Take Part, July 2014)

Governor Cuomo Announces Council on Community Re-Entry and Reintegration (Governor’s Office, July 2014)

Complaints, Violations at Accused Murderer’s Group Home (WNYC, June 2014)

Prison Program Turns Inmates Into Intellectuals (The New York Times, May 2014)

The Dangerous Zone Between a Halfway House and Freedom (Al Jazeera, February 2014)

Governor Cuomo Launches Initiative to Provide College Classes in New York Prison (Governor’s Office, February 2014)

Gov. Cuomo’s Bold Step on Prison Education (The New York Times, February 2014)

Prison re-entry programs missing prisoners, advocates complain (Final Call, February 2014)

2013

New Data on Repeat Offenders (The Wall Street Journal, December 2013)

‘Stop Jailing 16-year-olds,’ NY Policymakers Are Told (The Crime Report, November 2013)

Professors Moller and Dreisinger Bring Therapy Through Theater to Female Inmates in Thailand (John Jay Website, November 2013)

Overdosing rampant in sober houses (Salon, November 2013)

Report On “Three-Quarter Houses” For Ex-Convicts, Others Finds 317 in NYC (The Crime Report, October 2013)

Report: Illegal NYC homes house ex-prisoners (The Hour, October 2013)

Report: Homes for Indigent Addicts Have Poor Conditions, Unsavory Ties to Drug Clinics (ProPublica, October 2013)

CHPC Discusses Three-Quarter Houses (CHPCNYC, October 2013)

John Jay tries to help prisoners turn lives around (New York Business Journal, September 2013)

Celebrating a Partnership with John Jay College of Criminal Justice (The Doe Fund Blog, September 2013)

A Home of Their Own (The Crime Report, July 2013)

Can Empty Prisons Be Repurposed To Help Ex-Cons Reintegrate Into Society? (Gotham Gazette, April 2013)

The Brian Lehrer Show: Do Halfway Houses Work? (WNYC, March 2013)

2012

Opening Up a Pipeline: Education Program Helps Pave the Way for Prisoner Reentry (John Jay Research Consortium Website, December 2012)

The Ten Most Significant Criminal Justice Stories of 2012 (The Crime Report, December 2012)

Criminal Justice Matters: Taking College to Prison (Criminal Justice Matters, August 2012)

Prisoner Reentry Institute’s NYC Justice Corps Expansion to Provide Multifaceted Services to Low-Income Communities Citywide (CUNY, August 2012) 

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