California Forward
Promising partnership with county and nonprofit having impact on high rate of return to jail by the formerly incarcerated.
read moreParticipants in reentry program receive workshops, employment services, even the loan of business attire.
read moreHighlighting local housing efforts, as the Bay Area gets more expensive and counties continue to deal with the loss of redevelopment funds.
read moreIn Bay Area county that needs nearly 60,000 more affordable units, complex will help low-income families, at-risk youth and provide retail space.
read moreRate of serious mental illness in prison populations shown to be two to four times higher than the community populations
read morePartnership with County will use data to drive creation of cost-effective solutions to reduce the need for incarceration.
read moreNew data shows that states could likely reduce costs of incarceration without a negative impact on crime.
read moreFocusing on results and data helped staff rethink about what their department could do to lessen the burden on the jails.
read moreThe county probation department successfully used data analysis to create a 25 percent reduction in probation violations since spring of 2014.
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