For more than a year, a small army of city workers and volunteers — backed by both public...
Op-ed: Faith-based resource centers are trailblazers in reentry work
April is Second Chance Month, a time for exploring how our community can reduce barriers for individuals coming home from jail or prison. Faith-based organizations have long been the safety net for the justice-involved, long before Santa Clara County opened the Reentry Resource Center in 2012. In 2011, Assembly Bill 109 or Public Safety Realignment Act was passed, shifting nonviolent, nonserious, nonsex offenders from state prisons to local county jails and probation departments. Counties received AB 109 funding to manage that responsibility. Instead of building bigger jails, Santa Clara County designated most of its funding for in-custody and community-based programming....
