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This research brief presents findings from the Returning Home study in Cleveland, Ohio. The first phase of the Urban Institute's Ohio study analyzed where former Ohio prisoners settle after release and found that many returned to a handful of hard-pressed Cleveland neighborhoods.
- One Year Out
This research brief presents the final results from the...
- One Year Out
This research brief presents the final results from the Returning Home study in Ohio, based on the third and final follow-up interviews conducted with nearly 300 former prisoners at least 12 months after release who were living in Cleveland and the surrounding area.
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Cleveland, Ohio’s revitalization efforts illustrate the complexities of urban regenerations. Although the city was dealing with the challenges of poverty, crime, crumbling infrastructure, and massive property abandonment, it had a willingness to test new cross-sector strategies.
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In summer of 2021, we started a listening project in Nelsonville, a community of 5,500 people in the Appalachian foothills. The long-term vision of the listening project is to sustain campaigns that win lasting material gains for poor and working class people. In the last year, five volunteers from Nelsonville talked with 75 residents and gave out ...
SURJ’s Northeast Ohio chapter was founded in 2015 in Cleveland. Our organizer supports chapter members to strategize, bring in new people, and train new leaders. In 2021, we were part of a campaign that won the strongest police oversight in the country. We were part of the planning process and leadership team, and took on organizing voters in white...
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One Year Out: Experiences of Prisoners Returning to Cleveland. This paper presents the final results of the Returning Home study in Ohio, describing the lives of men during their first year out of prison and returning to the Cleveland area along with implications and recommendations.
The Urban League of Greater Cleveland is a community-based organization focused on eliminating the racial, economic, and societal barriers that prevent Black Americans and other underrepresented/underserved communities of color from achieving their full potential.
In Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Black defendants are held in jail at 6.4 times the rate of white defendants. unBail, a fiscally sponsored project of the Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association in Cuyahoga County, has been working to create a more equitable legal system to combat these issues.
