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Reentry
Reentry is the moment the system claims success and reality says otherwise. The first weeks after release carry the highest overdose risk. These essays focus on the reentry window we keep wasting.
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The Bottleneck of Bureaucracy: How Wisconsin Moves the Prison Pressure Around
Wisconsin's prison count fell when courts slowed, then climbed back toward its old peak. Here is how overcrowding, contract beds, and program scarcity move through the same machine.
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Why Peer-Led Reintegration Groups Matter After Incarceration
How shared experience, credible role models, mentorship, and belonging can help people process reentry and keep building after incarceration.
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Wisconsin’s Prison, Reentry, and Supervision Machine
An honest look at Wisconsin’s justice machine from someone who lived it: prisons, reentry, supervision, agents, cops, lawyers, PDs, laws, and lawmakers.
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How People Rebuild Identity in Recovery (3 Research-Backed Models)
Research-backed identity reconstruction: narrative identity, possible selves, and redemption scripts in daily Workbook and ReturnPath practice.
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Reentry Resources That Actually Help You Rebuild
Practical reentry resources after prison: 211, CareerOneStop, and SAMHSA for concrete needs, plus identity work families can support at home.
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Peer Recovery Groups for Young Adults Leaving Treatment or Justice Settings
Age-specialized peer recovery groups for young adults leaving treatment or justice settings: belonging, identity work, and guardrails beside clinical care.
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What Curriculum Can Halfway Houses Use for Reentry Programming?
ReturnPath halfway house curriculum: 16-week reentry with workbook accountability, rolling enrollment, and facilitator guides for transitional housing.
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Drug Legalization and Recidivism: What the Evidence Shows
How does drug legalization affect recidivism? It can cut drug-related arrests and re-incarceration cycles when reform pairs legal access with treatment, housing, and reentry support.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 13: Mental Health, Housing, and Despair
Part 13 explores drug addiction and homelessness, mental illness, and housing-first recovery in the drug legalization and regulation series.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 12: The Reentry Window We Keep Wasting
Prison release overdose risk peaks in the first days and two weeks. Care continuity, MOUD, naloxone, and housing decide who survives.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 7: Recovery Lockbox: Fund Addiction Treatment Without Raising Taxes
A recovery lockbox captures enforcement savings and regulated-market revenue to fund MOUD, housing, and reentry, using FY 2025 budget realities.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 3: The Hidden Sentence
Drug felony conviction: voting rights, gun rights, and the permanent sentence rarely discussed. Part 3 in the drug legalization series.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 2: How Drug Criminalization Creates a Permanent Underclass
Drug felony consequences go far beyond court: employment and housing barriers, ruined credit, and traps that follow people after release.