Navigating The New York Prison System: A Resource Guide For Families

· Supervision offers several programs for incarcerated individuals to have access to their loved ones. This handbook has been designed to help you to understand more about the NewYork State Department of Corrections and Community S.

Coming Home: AFamily'sGuide to Reunification is a brochure created by the NewYork State Department of Correctional Services. Child Support Helpline (1-888-208-4485) is a useful New York specific resource for any questions about child support.

Information on best practices for supporting parent-child visiting in prisons and jails. These handbooks focus on the experiences and needs of children with an incarcerated parent and provide essential information for caregivers.

In collaboration with the Center for Urban Pedagogy's Public Access Design program, we have created this guide that explains how to stay connected with loved ones who are incarcerated in NewYork State prisons.

Community, government, and non-profit organizations in NewYork have developed many reentry resources to help individuals, families, and communities successfully navigate the transition process. The following links and resources provide convenient access to reentry resources in NewYork.

We are often the first point of contact for people to connect with prisoners' rights organizations, community organizations, prison literature and arts projects, family and visiting resources, health care and legal resources, parole and pre-release resources, and the prison abolition movement.

Trainings on the effects of incarceration on families and communities. We are experts in NYSprison issues and can assist you if you are a prisonfamily member or a person of conscience. We host a yearly 3-day retreat for women who have loved ones in NYSprisons.

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