Reentry News

TV personality talking about Sentencing

November 21, 2025

Blacks receive longer prison sentences than Whites who commit the same crimes, research shows

According to this video and supporting research, Black defendants in the U.S. are receiving longer prison sentences—on average—than White defendants for comparable crimes, with significant disparities in likelihood of incarceration and sentence length.

Governor Cooper speaking at a podium

July 17, 2024

On His Way Out, North Carolina Governor Expands Support for People Leaving Prison 

An executive order directs state agencies to improve reentry services and fix a broken system that failed me and thousands of others released from prison into homelessness each year.

People preparing for reentry simulation exercise

June 26, 2022

Pitt Community College holds reentry simulation exercise

Among those in attendance were lawyers, judges, mayors, and sheriffs. All of them were given new identities, posing as individuals released from jail, and told to figure out how to survive.