Publication: Sacramento Bee
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Project Rebound was started in 1967 at San Francisco State University by Professor of Criminology and Sociology John Irwin as a means of helping the formerly incarcerated navigate higher education.
Following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2019 budget signing, Project Rebound is slated to receive $3.3 million in state funding across nine campuses. The governor’s initial budget proposal set aside $250,000 for the program. According to CSU, seven additional schools have expressed interest in adopting it.
Budget committee chairman and author of the Budget Act of 2019, Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, cited the funding as both a fiscal and social investment for California.
“We’ve been looking for different rehabilitation programs that, frankly, have worked. We know that if we can honestly rehabilitate a former inmate we can save hundreds of thousands to millions in costs for the state down the road,” Ting said.
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