Reentry Strategies
Teaching People How To Succeed During And After Incarceration
The Challenge
Within three years of release, about two-thirds (67.8 percent) of released prisoners were rearrested. Within five years of release, about three-quarters (76.6 percent of released prisoners were rearrested, more than (56.7 percent) were arrested by the end of the first year.
The Mission
Reduce recidivism by helping people reclaim their lives during and after jail, prison or community supervision.
Provide incarcerated men, women and justice-involved youth with innovative reentry programing tools that will transform them into model inmates, as well as positive and productive members of society. Show these individuals that success is attainable after incarceration.
The Solution
Take a bold new approach to developing prison reentry program materials, that includes collaborating with successful returned citizens to create practical yet powerful reentry program materials that address the challenges, obstacles and stigmas associated with incarceration. Working with the correctional community to get these materials in the hands of the people who will benefit from them the most.
From the Founder
Proof Positive
“After spending 33 years trapped in the revolving door of the criminal justice system; jail, prison, probation, supervised release, I am proof positive you can turn a negative situation into a positive opportunity. Reentry Strategies creates cognitive behavior prison reentry programs, based on lived experiences, that help free people from their mental and emotional prisons, as they wait to be freed from their physical prison.”
Changin' Your Game Plan
An innovative prison reentry program brings the men, women and justice involved youth face-to-face with their own personal truth. This no nonsense, un-filtered, take responsibility for your life program is changing the hearts, minds and behaviors of the most street/prison hardened individuals.
Formats Available
Paperback Workbook
Digital – Cd
Tablet Formats
Spanish Translation
50+ video
Beyond Prison Probation and Parole
A prison reentry readiness film series that features inspiring stories told by formerly incarcerated men and women who have overcome the hurdles, stigmas and challenges faced by returning citizens released from prison
Formats Available
10 Dvds + 10 Cds
Tablet platforms
Spanish translation