Returning Citizens

"Returning citizens" refers to groups of people who have been incarcerated and are regaining their lives as free citizens. Returning citizens may require aid including, but not limited to, supplies for basic needs, housing, legal counseling, and job training for employment. The Free Library of Philadelphia's Prison and Reentry Services Program offers a variety of programs and information resources such as Bridges: A Guide to Your Community. Prison and Reentry Services also assists persons who are currently incarcerated with our Reference-By-Mail service. For more information, please visit our Prison and Reentry Services program page.

Returning Citizens

Links

  • Bridges: A Guide to Your Community

    This guide assists Philadelphia reentrants with accessing housing, employment, healthcare, and more through local organizations and Free Library of Philadelphia resources.

  • City of Philadelphia Office of Reentry Partnerships

    Elevating the City's reentry efforts by supporting justice-involved individuals with resources, training, and referrals.

  • F.R.E.E

    I’mFREE is a 501c3, nonprofit serving incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women from the Greater Philadelphia area.

  • Impact Service Corporation

    Jobs are the foundation of personal and family self-sufficiency and the core of Impact’s work. Since 1974, their neighborhood-based programs have helped over 25,000 people enter or re-enter the workforce.

  • Institute for Community Justice

    Philadelphia-based initiative of community-inspired, community-led solutions for healing in a time of mass imprisonment.

  • Philadelphia Area Prisoner Reentry Network

    This comprehensive directory assists in finding services related to adult and juvenile probation services, criminal justice and courts, victim and witness assistance, and more.

  • Reconstruction, Inc.

    Support and advocacy for returning citizens and currently-incarcerated individuals. Runs the Fight for Lifers program which advocates for those sentenced to life sentences.

  • The Center for Returning Citizens Community Healing Center

    TCRC - CHC has a threefold mission to help aid in the betterment of Philadelphia's formerly incarcerated men and women by providing reentry support, distribution of food and resources, and conflict resolution resources.

Returning Citizens - Resources by explore

Resources for Returning Citizens.

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Resumes for the rest of us : secrets from the pros for job seekers with unconventional career paths cover
The ex-offender's 30/30 job solution cover
The ex-offender's job interview guide cover
ex-offender's job search companion :getting a good job despite your record cover
The ex-offender's re-entry success guide cover

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Returning Citizens - Prison Memoirs by explore

Books written by and about former prisoners, both famous and infamous.

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Prison baby : a memoir cover
Prisoner of Tehran : a memoir cover
The prisoner's wife : a memoir cover
Kissing the sword : a prison memoir cover
sweet hell on fire :a memoir of the prison i worked in and the prison i lived in cover

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Join Us for the Premiere Screening of “The Command Center to Bring Women Home”

Join your neighbors at the Parkway Central Library on Wednesday, November 30 at 6 p.m.  for the FREE Philadelphia premiere screening of the new short hybrid documentary film, “ The Command Center to Bring Women Home…

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