Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2007, $450,000)
The Prisoner Reentry Initiative (PRI) is designed to provide funding to state units of government to develop and implement institutional and community corrections-based offender reentry programs. The PRI strengthens urban communities characterized by large numbers of returning offenders. The PRI is designed to reduce recidivism by helping returning offenders find work and assess other critical services in their communities. The PRI supports strategies to deliver pre- and post-release assessments and services, and to develop transition plans in collaboration with other justice and community-based agencies and providers for supervised and non-supervised offenders.
The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) is the lead agency in a partnership with the Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole (BOPP) and the Shelby County Division of Corrections (SCDOC). Using FY2007 Prisoner Reentry Initiative funds, the group will implement the Staying HOME: Staying Healthy, Staying Organized, Staying Motivated, Staying Employed Project. Staying HOME is a three-year program designed to serve 280 male robbery and burglary offenders coming home to live in Memphis/Shelby County, following incarceration at the Shelby County Division of Corrections in Memphis or the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville. The proposed program hopes to reduce recidivism among robbery and burglary offenders, which will benefit not only the offenders and their families but the broader community as well.
The goal of Staying HOME is for a minimum of 240 participants to successfully achieve parole after completing the first 6-months of programming (offered inside prison) and for a minimum of 200 to successfully complete both pre-and post-release programming.
Grant funds will support the hiring of case managers, an independent evaluator, travel associated with required conferences and training, service contracts and project supplies.
CA/NCF