On a recent Friday in Greenville, a black bus parked outside the Joy Community Center and Soup Kitchen, drawing attention from those arriving for a hot meal. White lettering on the side of the vehicle ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Less than two weeks after it went live, 420 people have already called the Recidivism Reduction Hotline, operated by Raleigh-based Recidivism Reduction Education Programs ...

Prison Fellowship, the nation’s largest Christian nonprofit serving currently and formerly incarcerated people and their families, and a leading advocate for criminal justice reform, is the first ...

According to the Vera Institute of Justice, Massachusetts has attained the lowest incarceration rate of any state. It’s done so by incorporating cutting-edge, recidivism-reduction outreach that has ...

Kerwin Pittman, standing, and Ciara Levy, seated, chat on board the Mobile Recidivism Reduction Center in Raleigh on Jan. 29, 2025. Pittman created the traveling support services center this year to ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A Raleigh nonprofit, founded by Raleigh activist Kerwin Pittman, is working to ensure former inmates don't find themselves back in jail. The nonprofit, RREPS or Recidivism ...

A pair of Republican and Democratic U.S. senators recently questioned the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Colette Peters, about why several faith-based recidivism reduction programs have ...

Iowa Department of Corrections director Beth Skinner says the recidivism rate among individuals who’ve been released from prison has dropped for a third straight year — meaning there’s a decline in ...

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