Prisoner Re-Entry Goes Hyperlocal

"...Research has shown that if we can connect [just-released people] with resources within the first few weeks, recidivism is less," said [Amy] Meek ...So the resources are traveling en masse, to the released prisoners and their neighborhoods in the form of resource fairs. As a companion effort to localize services for re-entering prisoners, parole officers are being placed in the substations. That means parolees don't have to travel across town to meet their officers at the main office on Fitch Street...."   read the entire article here, at the New Haven Independent