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City of Chicago Partners with Safer Foundation on Green Jobs Program
The City of Chicago is committed to improving our local environment and strives to be the greenest city in the nation. In September of 2008, we released the Chicago Climate Action Plan - CCAP (www.chicagoclimateaction.org) that describes the significant effects climate change could have on our city along with how to address those challenges. CCAP’s key focus areas include energy efficient buildings, clean and renewable energy sources, improved transportation options, reduced waste and industrial pollution and adaptation.
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Joyce Foundation Releases Transitional Jobs Report
August 12, 2009 -- The Joyce Foundation recently presented the findings from its Transitional Jobs Reentry Demonstration. The report stresses that the number of people in prison in America has quadrupled over the past three decades. States spend over $38 billion per year on prison costs, a number that factors out to over $134 per citizen. By promoting reentry programs like the ones offered by Safer Foundation, communities can help lower recidivism rates and dramatically cut both the fiscal and human costs of imprisonment.
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Internal Exile, Collateral Consequences of Conviction in Federal Laws and Regulations
February 2009-A joint project of the ABA Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions (Commission) and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS), it is an outgrowth of both entities’ work on the effect of a criminal record on the availability of a wide range of benefits and opportunities, which in turn determines a person’s likely ability to rebuild his or her life after a criminal conviction.
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Safer Foundation Featured in “Recidivism Drops in Illinois” article on the MacArthur Foundation website.
May 2008-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich announced the lowest conviction rate among parolees in state history and a 23 percent reduction in arrests among the general parolee population.
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U.S. Conference of Mayors – Rock Island Mayor Speaks About Safer Programming
July 2008-While most of the focus on coordinated reentry initiatives for ex-offenders tends to be on large urban centers, mid'sized cities such as Rock Island are not immune to the challenges that the ex-offender population can present. In Rock Island, we are proud to have a 32-year history of providing coordinated reentry services to residents through a collaborative relationship with the Safer Foundation and Rock Island County.
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Congressman Danny K. Davis announces that the U. S. House of Representatives Passed the Landmark Second Chance Act of 2007
November 2007-Congressman Danny K. Davis, chief sponsor of the historic Second Chance Act of 2007 applauded his colleagues in both the House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate, members from both sides of the aisle, for moving the Second Chance Act of 2007 to the point where a vote was held in the U. S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, November 13, 2007, and the measure passed 347-62.
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