Press

  • The New York Times
    Letter to the Editor: "Exported Prisoners" — August 7, 2007
    by Carol Shapiro
    [Read the Letter]

  • The New York Times
    "States Export their Inmates as Prisons Fill" — July 31, 2007
    by Solomon Moore
    [Read the Article]

  • Criminal Justice Drug Letter
    "Senate and House Debating Offender Reentry Legislation" — February 2006
    [Read the Article]

  • Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Weekly
    "Teens caught in the middle: Juvenile justice system and treatment" — December 12, 2005
    [Read the Article]

  • New York City Housing Authority Monthly Safe Horizon Report
    "Case Study: PSA 4 Case Manager Maria Deliz" — December 2005
    [Read the Article]

  • Hope Magazine
    "Doing Family Time" — March/April 2004
    by Frank Rubino
    [Read the Article]

  • The Greater Good
    [Read the Article]

  • The Governing Magazine
    "The New Shape of Government"
    by Stephen Goldsmith
    [Read the Article]

  • The Christian Science Monitor
    "A New Weapon in the War on Drugs: Family" — April 30, 2003
    by Alexandra Marks
    [Read the Article]  
         
  • Corrections Today (June 2002)
    [The official publication of the American Correctional Association]
    "Enhancing Supervision by Engaging Families" [Best in the Business 2002]
    [word doc, 37kb]
    by Donald G. Evans
    [Read the Article]
     
  • The Christian Science Monitor
    "A Flood of Parolees Hits the Streets" — December 2, 2002
    by Kris Axtman
    [Read the Article]  (Available for a small charge from The Christian Science Monitor.)
     
  • El Diario/La Prensa
    "La Bodega de la Vida: Las familias de Loisaida rescatan a su comunidad de un pasado tragico" 
    ("The Bodega of Life: The families of the Loisaida Rescue Their Community from a Tragic Past") — June 9, 2002
    by Eva Sanchis (a special Puerto Rican Day edition)
    [Read the Article]
     
  • TIME Magazine
    "Outside the Gates" — January 21, 2002
    by Amanda Ripley
    [Read the Article]
     
  • Urban Institute Justice Policy Center (June 1, 2001)
    "From Prison to Home: The Dimensions and Consequences of Prisoner Reentry"
    by Jeremy Travis, Amy L. Solomon, and Michelle Waul
    [Read the Article] (See page 45 for a profile of La Bodega.)
     
  • The Village Voice
    "La Bodega Forges Alliance with Parole Officers to Help the Hidden Victims of Addiction" — June 12, 2001
    by Jennifer Gonnerman
    [Read the Article]
     
  • The Changemakers Review* (December 2001)
    "Drug Offenders Stay Clean"
    by Kris Herbst
    [Read the Article]  
    [The article contains a lengthy profile of Carol Shapiro, who was named to the first class of Ashoka Fellows in the U.S. in 2001, as well as a history of La Bodega de la Familia and Family Justice.]
     
  • The Changemakers Review* (December 2001)
    "Families as a Resource for Leading Social Change"
    by Arundhati Ray
    [Read the Article]
    [In the same edition of The Changemakers Review; places the family-focused work of La Bodega and Family Justice in a broader international context.]
    *The Changemakers Review is the biannual publication of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.
     
  • City Limits
    "In the East Village, Rehab Is a Family Affair" — November 2001
    by Megan Costello
    [Read the Article]
     
  • Newsweek
    "The Prison Paradox"-November 13, 2000
    by Ellis Cose
    [ Read the Article]  (Available for a small charge from Newsweek.)
     
  • Issues and Practices Report (Office of Justice Programs, September 2000)
    "Promising Strategies to Reduce Substance Abuse"
    [Read the Article] (See pages 40-41 for a profile of La Bodega de la Familia.)
     
  • The Washington Post
    "At La Bodega, Parole on a Personal Level" — July 4, 2000
    by Peter Slevin
    [Read the Article] (Available for a small charge from The Washington Post.)
     
  • The New York Times
    Letter to the Editor — May 29, 2000
    [Read the Article]
       
  • The New York Times
    "Learning About Chico, Man Behind the Murals" — August 29, 1999
    by Christopher Wren
    [    Read the Article] (Available for a small charge from The New York Times archive.)
     
  • Just 'Cause
    [The newsletter of the Vera Institute of Justice]
    "How Do Police View La Bodega" (February 1999)
    by Douglas Young
    [Read the Article]
     
  • Just 'Cause
    [The newsletter of the Vera Institute of Justice]
    "La Bodega de la Familia Inspires White House Drug Czar" (April 1998)
    by Jennifer Trone
    [Read the Article]
     
  • The Drug Policy Letter (Spring 1998)
    [A quarterly publication of the Drug Policy Institute]
    "La Bodega de la Familia: Help for the Whole Family"
    by Whitney Taylor
    [Read the Article]
     
  • The Sunday Star Ledger
    "Ex-inmates Find They're Prisoners to Their Own Family's Fear" — March 29, 1998
    by Steven Gray
    [Read the Article]  (Available for a small charge from The Star Ledger.)
     
  • City Limits
    "The Family Fix: An Alphabet City Bodega Has the Holistic Approach" — September/October 1997
    by Adam Fifield
    [Read the Article]
     
  • Keeping Score: We Can Reduce Drug Abuse (1997)
    "Recognizing Drugs' Ripple Effect"  
    [Read the Article]
    [Published by Drug Strategies, a nonprofit research institute that promotes more effective approaches to the nation's drug problems and supports private and public efforts to reduce the demand for drugs through prevention, education, treatment, law enforcement, and community initiatives.]
     
  • The New York Times
    "Drug Program Helps Forgotten Victims: On the Lower East Side, Families of Addicts Receive Needed Relief" -September 25, 1997
    by Christopher S. Wren
    [    Read the Article] (Available for a small charge from The New York Times archive.)
     
  • The Villager
    "Scene of a Drug Shootout Now Counseling Center" — December 27, 1996
    by Michael Haberman
    [Read the Article]
     

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