Transition/Re-entry

The Therapeutic Community TEAM Program is an intensive drug treatment program at South Idaho Correctional Institution. The program has a 77% success rate and has had 601 graduates since 2001.

A bill that recently passed in both houses of the Idaho legislature has the potential to make it nearly impossible for groups to operate housing for people transitioning from prison to the community.

The Helena Independent Record recently published a feature giving more insight into how Montana’s pre-release centers work. The story New Lease on Life reveals that prisoners transferred into the Helena Pre-Release Center find jobs and in one year paid $48,000 in restitution and $147,000 in taxes.

Partnership for Safety and Justice’s “Think Outside the Box Campaign” was featured in a January 2nd news story in The Portland Observer.

Opposition in Nampa, Idaho to homes for people transitioning from prison may lead to statewide legislation restricting where transitional housing may be located across the state.