Understanding Systemic Racism and Its Impact on Underserved Communities

Systemic racism refers to patterns within institutions, policies, and practices that, over time, produce unequal outcomes for different groups of people. Unlike individual acts of bias or …

What Courts Need to Know About Housing Instability in Reentry Cases

Housing instability is one of the most consistently overlooked variables in reentry decision-making, despite its direct influence on supervision outcomes, compliance, and court workload. For …

Posted in January 2026 

  How Homelessness Drives Technical Violations and Probation Failure

Why instability, not intent, keeps people cycling through the justice system

Introduction

Across the country, courts and probation departments are managing increasingly …

Posted January 2026

Why Reentry Fails Without Stable Housing: A Systems Breakdown

Reentry is not a motivation problem. It is a coordination problem.

Reentry is often framed as a test of personal responsibility. Success is attributed to motivation, readiness, or …