Community volunteer program helping reach zero recidivism among parolees in California

by Steve Brooks, Bay City News December 26, 2024December 24, 2024

The homepage for the California Reentry Institute website features volunteers and graduates of the program. CRI volunteers help parolees prepare for life outside prison walls by providing behavioral health services as well as education and employment assistance, helping to reduce recidivism rates. (Screenshot via californiareentryinstitute.org)

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS ARE proving that they play a vital role when it comes to public safety in California. The California Reentry Institute, directed by Collette Carroll to help potential parolees, has graduated more than 230 incarcerated individuals in San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.

At least 132 of them have since returned to their communities and have a zero percent recidivism rate.

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