Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Media Advisory: March NC Joint Reentry Council Meeting This Thursday

Raleigh
Mar 25, 2025

The North Carolina Joint Reentry Council will hold its next meeting Thursday March 27, in Raleigh.

Joint Reentry Council Meeting
Wake Tech Community College Beltline Education Center
3200 Bush Street, Raleigh, NC 27609
March 27, 2025
10 a.m.

The Joint Reentry Council works to coordinate efforts to improve rehabilitation and reentry for people returning to their communities after serving a sentence in prison or jail.

Agenda


10 a.m.      Welcome and Introductions
                     Leslie Cooley Dismukes, Secretary, NC Department of Adult Correction
                     Tammera Hill, Chief Operating Officer, NCDAC

10:15        Justice Reentry Strategic Planning Grant
                   Nicole E. Sullivan, Director of Reentry Services, NC Department of Public Safety
                   Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

10:30        Strategic Planning Update 
                   Maggie Brewer, Chief Deputy Secretary, NCDAC Rehabilitative and Correctional
                   Services; George Pettigrew, Deputy Secretary, NCDAC Division of Rehabilitation and
                   Reentry

10:45       Recidivism Reduction on Wheels
                  Kerwin Pittman, Founder & Executive Director of Recidivism Reduction Educational
                  Program Services

11:15       The Impact of Work Release on Post-Prison Employment, Wage Earnings, and
                  Reincarceration
                 Andrew Berger-Gross, Senior Economist, North Carolina Department of Commerce

11:45       Public Comments            

11:55       Closing Remarks
                  George Pettigrew, Deputy Secretary, NCDAC Division of Rehabilitation and Reentry

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