In 2015, the State of North Carolina received a 1.75 million dollar federal grant through the Bureau of Justice Assistance. This grant was awarded to enhance transitional services, expand reentry councils, and continue reforms begun under the 2011 Justice Reinvestment Act. Goals include funding reentry related programming within the prison systems, funding step down transitional housing for inmates being released, and to assist in appropriately matching programs and services to those individuals returning to communities...