Research Guides: Diversity &amp; Social Justice at OC: Justice-Involved

Web Resources for Formerly Incarcerated People

Clean Slate Clearinghouse
The Clean Slate Clearinghouse provides people with criminal records, legal service providers, and state policymakers with information on juvenile and adult criminal record clearance policies in all U.S. states and territories.
Freedom Project
The Freedom Project supports healing connection and restorative communities both inside and outside prison through the strategies of Nonviolent Communication, mindfulness, racial equity and anti-oppression.
The If Project
The IF Project is a collaboration of law enforcement, current and previously incarcerated adults and community partners focused on intervention, prevention and reduction in incarceration and recidivism.Their work is built upon–and inspired by–people sharing their personal experiences surrounding the issues of incarceration.
National Re-Entry Resource Center
he National Reentry Resource Center can help weave the numerous threads of successful reentry together to promote safety, collaboration, and second chances.

Justiced-Involved Students and Higher Ed

Olympic College is engaged in the process of creating support and welcome on campus for formerly incarcerated and justice involved students. More information is available by emailing reentry@olympic.edu

The Prison Policy Initiative records that 28,000 people are currently incarcerated in Washington State and another 88,000 people are under criminal justice supervision. Voting, health care, housing, and employment are all impacted by this. Education is one of the factors that can change outcomes for justice-involved people.

Library Resources

American Jails : The Magazine of the American Jail Association
Journal of Prison Education & Reentry
Peer-reviewed Journal

The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System by Paul Bergman; Sara J. Berman
Call Number: 345.7305 Be454cr
Publication Date: 2022
The Ex-Offender's Re-Entry Success Guide by Ronald Louis Krannich
Call Number: Main Collection - 2nd Floor ; 364.8 Kr863e
Publication Date: 2020
Injustice, Inc. : How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor by Daniel L. Hatcher
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2023
Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison by Michael Gibson-Light
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2023
Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers by Lynne Haney
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2022
Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court by Matthew Clair
Call Number: Main Collection - 2nd Floor 364.974461
Publication Date: 2020
Progressive Prosecution: Race and Reform in Criminal Justice by Kim Taylor-Thompson (Editor); Anthony C. Thompson (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2022
Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men : (Re)education by Nichols, Helen
Call Number: Main Collection - 2nd Floor ; 365.666 Ni516u
Publication Date: 2021

At OC

Counseling Services

MESA Program (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement)

Multicultural Services

Resource Center

Reentry Support

Tutoring

Videos

Injustice in the U.S. Justice System
Legally Speaking: Michelle Alexander- author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Equal Justice Initiative
The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.