California Reentry Institute

CRI's Pre Release Program: Our Pre-Release Program is a minimum 18-24 month weekly program run by an experienced team with strong curriculum designed to provide insight, education, life skills and comprehensive individual case management. Men who voluntarily enter our program are helped to understand who they were, what they did (understanding the pain and suffering that they have caused), who they are and can be and where they are going, preparing a road map to successfully get there and stay the course.

CRI's Sharing the Truth with Youth program is built on the belief that mentoring, sharing and caring are key to providing a more hopeful future to our youth. This program starts inside San Quentin State Prison where youth offenders of all ages and stages of incarceration share with youth in society the things they wish they had known at a younger age - things that could have changed the trajectory of their lives. Through this program, these men get the chance to speak directly to youth in schools and organizations out here in society. California Reentry Institute brings our moving documentary as well as some of these and other formerly incarcerated youth offenders to share their stories and answer any and all questions in the hopes that we can help change the trajectory of their lives and help them not make the same mistakes.

CRI's Post Release Program: Upon their release we are there for the men who have worked so hard and graduated from our Pre-Release program. We arrange for someone to be there from the first moment to assist them with the basics needs that are proven vital to their reentry success. These include Transportation; Clothing; Food and Amenities; Financial Resources; Documentation; Employment and Education; Health Care; Life Skills; Addiction and Recovery Aftercare; any and all assistance required as well as continued individual case management.