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Archive: December 2021

Update on North Carolina Budget, COVID Prison Conditions

December 30, 2021

By Ruthie Kesri

The North Carolina General Assembly recently released its final budget, the first since 2018, and it allocated funds that will directly affect the health and safety of incarcerated people in North Carolina’s prison population.

Against the wishes … Continue Reading →

Medicaid Should be Used for Behavioral Health-Focused Services for Incarcerated People

July 22, 2021

By Jenna Prochnau

A recent paper in Psychiatric Services co-authored by the Wilson Center’s Dr. Marvin S. Swartz explores the potential for Medicaid coverage to be used to develop and sustain peer support services for incarcerated people with mental illnesses, … Continue Reading →

Growing Above and Beyond: UCAN Farming Skills Support Reentry

April 12, 2021

Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of an occasional series from the Wilson Center’s Michele Easter examining the intersection of nature and agriculture to support recovery, resilience, and community success within justice-involved communities. The logo for this series was … Continue Reading →

Reentry Event Highlights Need For More Resources

March 16, 2021

By De’Ja Wood

On Tuesday, March 9, Alice Marie Johnson and Dontae Sharpe joined the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke Law to discuss community re-entry challenges for those people who have been incarcerated.

Johnson is a criminal … Continue Reading →

Support During Justice System Re-entry: A Look at Critical Time Intervention

February 4, 2021

By Chinmay Amin

It’s widely documented that individuals who live in homeless shelters and suffer from mental illness often experience cycles of recurrent homelessness during their transition to living independently. The same is true for homeless persons with mental illness … Continue Reading →

Swartz: Closing Coverage Gaps to Promote Successful Prison Reentry for Persons with Mental Illness

November 25, 2020

Dr. Marvin S. Swartz, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke and a faculty member at the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at the Duke School of Law recently wrote a piece for Care4Carolina … Continue Reading →