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North Carolina's
Legislative Criminal Justice Policy Brief
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Increasing Access to Criminal Justice Resources
NC's Criminal Justice Resource Directory for Practitioners, Offenders & Their Families
Coming January 2010
In our role as a statewide criminal justice advocacy nonprofit and information clearinghouse, the Carolina Justice Policy Center has advocated for criminal justice reforms in North Carolina since 1975. In our 35th year we want to increase access to the resources currently available in the communities.
The directory is intended as a compass to help navigate North Carolina's network of community-based corrections programs, alternative programs to incarceration, re-entry programs, legal assistance programs, substance abuse treatment programs and other service programs located throughout North Carolina's 100 counties.
Please take a moment to fill out an information sheet to include your organization in the directory. Also, please forward this email to partners in your work or organizations that you know who provide these resources throughout the state. While we intend to build upon the information in this directory each year, we want to be as accurate and inclusive as possible in the first edition.
Click here to download information sheets in Microsoft Word or Adobe pdf format.
Deadline to submit information sheets: Friday, November 20, 2009
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StreetSafe Task Force
What works & what doesn't work for Offenders?
The Governor's new Streetsafe task force met for the first time on October 8. The group was established by NC Governor Beverly Perdue and is tasked with sharing ideas about what works and what doesn't for people returning from prison. It is expected to meet for one year and then it's expected to turn its ideas over to the Governor and appropriate state agencies.
News 14 Meeting Coverage
Send the Governor and CJPC input on their Facebook pages. List your own ideas about effective strategies for people returning to their communities after a prison sentence. | |
Legislative Funding Continuation Reviews
Legislators to Review some Offender Programs before Short Legislative Session Begins
The General Assembly has set five continuation reviews that will take place prior to the short session. Each appropriations committee selected one program for review and interestingly enough, 3 of the 5 reviews have to do with offenders. They are:
Prisoner's Eduction Program - Community College system - Education Appropriations Committee Sentencing Services - Office of Indigent Defense Services - Justice and Public Safety Appropriations Committee Young Offenders Forest Conservation Program (BRIDGE) - Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Each of these programs must present a report to the Fiscal Research Division by December 1, 2009. After discussion with Fiscal Research, the final report must be presented to the General Assembly by March 1, 2010. Although past Continuation Review Reports were submitted to Interim Oversight Committees, the 2010 reports are expected to be presented to the Appropriations committee listed above.
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News from Friends .....
of the Carolina Justice Policy Center
Community Success Initiative Re-entry Teach-in
Community Success Initiative Reentry is planning an all day (9am-5pm) Reentry "Teach-In" and "Check-In" with its Statewide Reentry Network on October 20th, 2009 at the CSI administrative offices at 1116 N. Blount St., Raleigh, NC (formerly the home of Building Together Ministries). You are invited to come and share (or just listen in) with the reentry network and to exchange knowledge and resources with the group.
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Building Knowledge & Finding Help
COMING January 2010!
North Carolina's Criminal Justice Resource Directory for Practitioners, Offenders' and Their Families | |
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Upcoming Conferences & Events
Community Success Initiative
Oct 21, 2009
11am-2pm
NC Rural Center
4021 Carya Drive
Raleigh, NC
Nov 4 - 6, 2009
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Jan 14-17, 2009
Louisville, Kentucky
State & National Research Findings
The Long Reach of American Corrections
CJPC Staff & Volunteers
Senior Director of
Policy & Special Projects
Nathaniel Boston
Volunteer Office Aide
Patricia McDonald
Volunteer Office Aide
CJPC
Board of Directors
Linda Weisel
Postconviction Attorney
Kate Dixon
Secretary/Treasurer
Friends of the Mountains to Sea Trail - Executive Director
Dr. Peter H. Burian
Duke University
Classical Studies Professor
Dr. Jeffrey Elliot
NC Central University Political Science Dept Chair
Dr. Jarvis Hall
NC Central University
Civic Engagement Director
Edd Gulati-Partee
Self-Help Community Credit Union
Information Technology
Sheria Reid
Institute of Government
Policy Analyst
CJPC is a partner organization
of the following:
Blueprint NC
HK on J Progressive Coalition for Social Change
"A Movement Not a Moment"
North Carolina Center for Nonprofits
North Carolina
Coalition for a Moratorium on Executions
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Contact Us!
Mailing Address:
Post Office Box 309
Durham, NC 27702-0309
(919) 682-1149
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