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Freedom Through Art: Community Partners in Action hosts 44th annual Prison Arts Program Show, UCONN’s The Daily Campus, Oct. 2024

Larson Announces $230,000 for Community Arts Initiatives Press Release, Oct. 2024

‘I got the right?’ CT law lets incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated vote but few know’ Hartford Courant, Sept. 23.

Relatively new, potentially powerful voting bloc in CT may soon make noise: the formerly incarcerated, CT Insider/Hearst Media, Sept. 17, 2024.

Prison Arts Annual Show 2024 Opens Sept. 26 at CT State Community College Manchester, Manchester Patch, Sept. 4, 2024

CT’s Hall of Change inducts its ‘Great8,’ honoring positive community impact after incarceration, CT Insider, Aug. 27, 2024

CT Hall of Change Inducts their 2024 Great 8 in the Capital City, WTNH-News8, Aug. 12, 2024 

West Hartford Business Buzz, We-Ha, July 22, 2024

Bringing Art to Prison: Event raises over $60K for program, New Britain Herald, July 14, 2024

Opinion: We believe housing is a fundamental human right, CT Insider/Hearst Media, July 17, 2024

CT arts program bridges gap between inmates and the rest of the world: ‘Art brings us more together’, CT Insider, June 30, 2024

Re-entry programs face financial hurdles amid efforts to support former inmates, Connecticut Public Radio, June 11, 2024

Nonprofits rally at Capitol for more funding, NBC-CT, April 24, 2024

2024 Governor’s Workforce Awards, CBIA, April 20, 2024

Reentry Welcome Centers For Formerly Incarcerated Seek Financial Support, CT News Junkie, March 22, 2024

Re-entry welcome centers call on state legislature to provide funding for services, NBC-CT, March 22, 2024

Report reveals challenges of reentering communities after incarceration, CT News Junkie, Feb. 28, 2024

CT reentry centers ask: Where is the money from prison closures? Hartford Courant, February 24, 2024

As opiod settlement money comes to CT, pain of personal loss confronts bureaucratic delays, Connecticut Public Radio, Nov. 20, 2023

Prison Arts Program, Where art mends lives, behind and beyond bars, The Christian Science Monitor, October 16, 2023

Waterbury State’s Attorney’s Office to Host Community Resource Fair June 3, Division of Criminal Justice, May 31, 2023

Waterbury expands program to help the formerly incarcerated, News8-WTNH, April 25, 2023

Incarcerated people in CT could get health insurance under new proposal, CT Insider, January 18, 2024

‘Prison Art Show’ at ECSU, CPA program helping current, former inmates, The Chronicle, March 25, 2023

Art and incarceration: Annual prison show back on track at ECSU, Connecticut Public Radio, March 20, 2023

Connecticut’s turnaround of troubled juvenile system sets a standard, says justice-equity organization, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, December 1, 2023

Close to 44K Cannabis Convictions Erased Ahead of Recreational Sales, NBC-CT, January 9, 2023

Bank of America Grants Fund Workforce, Housing Programs, CBIA, December 15, 2022

Reentry Welcome Center reopens at new location in Hartford, Hartford Business Journal, July 18, 2022

Hartford helped with a second chance when they came from prison. Now the Reentry Welcome Center is growing, Hartford Courant, July 15, 2022.

Bridgeport nonprofit gets $4M to help 400 former inmates get jobs, Ct Post, June 29, 2022

KeyBank Donates $100K to Returning Citizens Program, CBIA, February 4, 2022

Gordon S. Bates Obituary, Dignity Memorial, January 20, 2022

Juveniles, Joyrides & Justice: CT incarcerates fewer children than other states, but as crime concerns grow, some question of that’s the right call, Connecticut Public Radio, October 27, 2021

New Haven officially opens prisoner reentry center, calls for related legislation on state-wide level, Yale Daily News, February 5, 2021