From Davis Vanguard:
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Prison Policy Initiative expressed support in a briefing released Friday, April 10, for a guaranteed income program for formerly incarcerated people in Alachua County, Florida, calling on policymakers and advocates to adopt similar cash assistance models nationwide.
The briefing states that the Florida-based program offers cash assistance to anyone in the county who has “been released from a prison or jail or [has] started probation in the previous year,” providing intentionally broad eligibility criteria to maximize support.
“Unemployment is highest within the first two years of release, so financial assistance can make the biggest impact in the early part of reentry,” the Prison Policy Initiative said. “Notably, these struggles are disproportionately imposed on Black Americans, who are overrepresented in the country’s correctional facilities […].”
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