The Biden administration unveiled a plan Tuesday that will allocate $145 million to developing “reentry plans” for incarcerated persons, which would connect them to resources, such as jobs, housing and loans upon being released.
The plan is the latest Biden initiative to tackle criminal justice reform that the president made part of his 2020 presidential campaign.
Reentry plans should begin as soon as a person is incarcerated and no later than 18 months before a person’s sentence is complete, Biden’s office said.
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