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Resources for people coming home
Pick a state for its housing, food, phone, ID, health, job and crisis help in one place. National official links are below.
⌂Housing
- Pick a state below to see its reentry housing page.
- 211.org: local shelters, food banks and clothing closets (opens in new tab) (or dial 2-1-1)
◍Food
◇Clothes
- 211.org: local shelters, food banks and clothing closets (opens in new tab) lists local clothing closets
- Ask the reentry or parole officer: many prisons and parole offices keep a list of clothing help for people going home.
We haven't found an official statewide clothing program list, so we don't list one.
☏Phones
▭ID
✚Health & Medicaid
All states
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Federal prison? Release help is through the BOP and the state you're going home to. Federal prisons hub.
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