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The Family Life Center helps ex-offenders and their families by providing long-term holistic case management services starting prior to release from prison and extending for two months afterwards. The FLC Resource Center is available for all previously incarcerated individuals and their families. Learn more about our Programs & Services.

In addition to supporting individual families and ex-offenders, the Family Life Center advocates on behalf of communities affected by crime and incarceration. Learn more about our Policy and Research.

The Family Life Center ran the succesful Rhode Island Right to Vote Campaign. In November 2006 RI became the first state in our nation's history to restore voting rights to formerly incarcerated individuals through public referendum. Click here to learn more about the Right to vote Campaign. Congratulations to everyone involved, and if you just won your right to vote, you can register to vote at the Family Life Center.

The Family Life Center also runs the Justice Action Center, which is an online campaign for comprehensive criminal justice reform. The site allows people to join a group that provides email updates about ongoing reform efforts. Members can also participate in the campaign by taking part in emailing campaigns to politicians. Learn more about the Justice Action Center here.

For more information about the Family Life Center such as directions, staff listing, and how to get involved, visit the About Us section of this site.


The images rotating at the top of our website are part of a ceramic mural created by CityArts! youth for the Family Life Center. The mural is installed in the community resource center. To see all of the tiles together click here.

News and Upcoming Events

Family Life Center's 2007 Summer/Fall edition of 'Inside Out', our quarterly newsletter 2006 Winter edition
This month's calender of Resource Center activities
Court debt rules seen costing state
April 22: Projo article on court debt and incarceration
2008 Reinvest in Justice Legislative Campaign Launches
April 1: Bills announced at Statehouse
RI reverses 17-year old law
Oct 31-The General Assembly voted to reform 17-year old law; also chose to not override the veto on mandatory minimum drug sentencing
Law impacts disadvantaged, minority youth not violent criminals
Family Life Center releases report showing the real impacts of the law that charges 17-year-olds as adults
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