Nearly half of people in prisons are parents, underscoring the need for comprehensive reentry programs that support families and parents. Explore insights from the first-ever convening by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the CSG Justice Center for Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children grantees. Discover innovative strategies shaping the future of family support and reintegration. 

The CSG Justice Center, in partnership with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, hosted a groundbreaking National Training Institute. Learn about the Juvenile Court Transformation Initiative and dive into the success stories and transformative strides achieved in this training on juvenile justice reform. 

The U.S. Department of Justice is calling for states to abolish fines and fees imposed on families of minors in the juvenile justice system, highlighting the financial burdens these charges place on low-income families and detailing efforts for reform to promote fairness and reduce recidivism. 

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the CSG Justice Center have selected four corrections agencies to receive an embedded data analyst through the Resident Corrections Analyst initiative. The resident corrections analysts will focus on improving each agency’s data analysis capabilities through modernizing data management and reporting and expanding the existing data pipelines to deliver reporting metrics faster. 

The four agencies selected to receive an embedded corrections data analyst are the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and the Wyoming Department of Corrections.

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