Returning Home: Prison, Homelessness, or Housing? The Choice Changes Everything.
Returning Home Now Streaming: A Riveting New Film About Second Chances and Safer Communities.
Returning Home: Prison, Homelessness, or Housing? The Choice That Changes Everything takes viewers inside Ohio’s innovative and highly effective prison re-entry programs, exploring how supportive housing can change the trajectory for people after incarceration. Through candid interviews with formerly incarcerated individuals — from those once on death row to others who paid their debt — and the landlords who support second chances, the film reveals the choice between prison, homelessness, or housing. It’s an inspiring story of resilience, dignity, and the small interventions that rebuild lives and make communities safe.
The Returning Home film is a collaboration between CSH and Invisible People.
You watched the film; you have seen the stories. Now, see the impact by the numbers.
Returning Home spotlights two proven CSH initiatives: Returning Home Ohio and the Community Transition Program. Developed in partnership between CSH and Ohio state agencies, these programs have delivered more than a decade of measurable outcomes and meaningful change. Here are the latest outcomes.
THE RESULTS
Returning Home Ohio (RHO) participants were:
60% less likely to return to jail or prison
40% less likely to be rearrested
91% people served by RHO or Community Transition Program avoided exiting to jail or prison
Within households served between July 2023 to June 2024:
89% of participants were stably housed
80% of participants have successfully accessed public benefits
23% of participants are employed
Be part of the movement to expand reentry supportive housing in your state.
Help engage state, city, and local agency and correctional leaders.
Interested in learning more about CSH’s Housing & Justice Connections?
CSH works with communities to help break the costly cycle of shelters, jail, prison, and care facilities.
We create and support data-driven programs, push for better policies, and work to change systems so that people affected by the justice system can get stable housing and the support they need to rebuild their lives.
