For many years, Connecticut’s Reentry Community served as a central hub for individuals returning home after incarceration, their families, service providers, and community partners. Developed through a statewide collaboration of government agencies, nonprofit organizations, local reentry roundtables, and community members, the initiative aimed to improve access to resources and strengthen support systems that help people successfully reintegrate into their communities.

As Connecticut’s prison population continued to decline, reentry supports became an integral part of successful reintegration back into the lives of returning citizens’ children, families, and communities — touching on everything from basic needs and housing to employment, mental health, and substance use support.

The vision behind it

Successful reentry is about more than leaving incarceration. Stable housing, employment, education, health care, transportation, family support, and community connections all play a role in helping individuals rebuild their lives. Connecticut’s Reentry Community was created to make those supports easier to find by bringing together information, organizations, and local partnerships committed to reducing barriers and improving outcomes for people returning to their communities.

Our Reentry Strategy

The Reentry Strategy created a recommended framework to guide comprehensive and coordinated policy development and service delivery systems for people transitioning from jail or prison to communities throughout the state, with the goals of reducing recidivism, improving public safety, saving and more efficiently using taxpayer dollars, and assisting people to return to and stay home.

The process was overseen by the CT Reentry Collaborative and the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy (IMRP) in collaboration with Governor Malloy’s Office of Policy and Management’s Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division, state and municipal justice system stakeholders, nonprofit provider organizations, victim and community advocates, and justice-involved people and their families.

About this website today

Today, the site stands as a record of that collaborative effort while continuing to direct visitors to organizations and services that provide current support throughout Connecticut. IMRP continues related justice work through several active initiatives — see IMRP’s current work for details.