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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is investing $5.5 million into the FIT Wellness program, part of the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition Program in the UNC School of Medicine, to improve reentry services for the justice-involved population.
Published: Thursday, February 29th, 2024 @ 12:24 pm
By: ENC NOW
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Formerly incarcerated female victims of sexual abuse testified before a Senate committee on Tuesday, detailing the horror that many experience behind bars.
Published: Wednesday, December 21st, 2022 @ 8:21 am
By: Daily Wire
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The previous installment in this series described the disastrous effect the late 20th century crime wave had on Black and poor Americans.
Published: Sunday, February 20th, 2022 @ 10:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The city of Durham is set to give monthly checks worth $500 to 115 formerly incarcerated people. The move is part of a nationwide basic income experiment, primarily bankrolled by Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 12:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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While the nation was preoccupied with holiday celebrations, an Al Qaeda operative incarcerated at the U.S. military jail in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as a “forever prisoner” was cleared to be released.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2021 @ 10:39 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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The bill isn’t soft on crime, but it does address critical concerns about incarcerated, drug-addicted individuals
Published: Thursday, May 9th, 2019 @ 9:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper has proclaimed April 23-27, 2018 as Reentry Week in North Carolina to draw attention to efforts to help formerly incarcerated people become productive members of their communities
Published: Tuesday, April 24th, 2018 @ 4:20 pm
By: Governor's Office
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This week Gov. Roy Cooper will help launch the State Reentry Council Collaborative, an effort to help formerly incarcerated people successfully return to the community and become productive contributors to society
Published: Saturday, October 14th, 2017 @ 5:08 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Action taken by the General Assembly nearly four years ago changing the state's prison and probation strategies appears to be paying dividends, both financially and in the number of repeat offenders, notes a recent study.
Published: Sunday, January 18th, 2015 @ 12:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Should prisoners have access to higher education while incarcerated? If so, should that access be funded by taxpayers? Those questions were raised after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in February that he wanted to create a state-run college program for prison inmates.
Published: Thursday, April 10th, 2014 @ 12:38 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Incarcerated prisoners are not entitled to unemployment benefits because they obviously do not meet the condition of being able, available, and actively looking for work.
Published: Monday, September 23rd, 2013 @ 8:45 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The common method in these scams is the caller's need for the victim to wire money as soon as possible to help a relative. These con artists are taking advantage of our citizens' good nature.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 @ 12:04 pm
By: BCN
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