Important Update:

DVS launches the Virginia Veterans Network (VVN) on Veterans Day 2024. Learn more.

Home Menu

About DVS Newsroom Events Donate Boards & Foundations

Request Services

What can we help you find today?

Justice Involved Veteran Support

Font Size: + -

Feedback Print

Virginia Veteran and Family Support is operated by the Virginia Department of Veterans Services.

VVFS Justice Involved Services (JIS) Program

The Virginia Veteran and Family Support (VVFS) Justice Involved Services program provides resource connections for veterans across the criminal justice system continuum. The VVFS Veteran Justice Specialists (VJS) connect justice involved veterans to housing, employment, treatment, benefits, and other community resources. The VJS assists veterans in veteran treatment court dockets, incarcerated in jail and prison (120 days prior to release), and on community supervision.

If you are a justice-involved veteran that needs a connection to resources or are working with a justice-involved veteran that needs assistance, please contact the VVFS JIS program at (804) 225-4734 or email justice.vvfs@dvs.virginia.gov.

For more information on the Justice Involved Services (JIS) program, please see the brochure and video below.

JIS Program Brochure (PDF)

Justice Involved Veteran Resources

Publications & Brochures

Re-entry Roadmap (PDF)

Jail brochure (PDF)

Virginia State Bar’s Access to Justice brochure - Access to Justice Brochure (vsb.org)

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Re-Entry Search Services (VRSS) brochure- Veterans Re-entry Search Service (va.gov) ; this brochure contains information about the VA’s Veterans Re-entry Services system. This is a free web-based system that criminal justice partners (courts, jails, and prisons) can use to identify veterans, so they can assist with connecting justice-involved veterans to resources and services.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) fact sheet on VA benefits and incarcerated veterans-Justice Involved Veterans (va.gov)

Websites

Virginia Veteran Treatment Court dockets- Specialty Docket Services: Veterans Treatment Dockets (VTD) (vacourts.gov)

Bureau of Justice Assistance Veteran Treatment Court program overview- Veterans Treatment Court Program | Overview | Bureau of Justice Assistance (ojp.gov)

Virginia Department of Corrections Veteran Resources- Veterans Resources — Virginia Department of Corrections

National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Justice Involved Veterans website- Justice-Involved Veterans | National Institute of Corrections (nicic.gov)

National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Justice Involved Veterans microsite- Home | Justice Involved Veterans (nicic.gov)

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veteran Justice Outreach (VJO) program- Veterans Justice Outreach Program - VA Homeless Programs

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Resources for Incarcerated Veterans- Incarcerated Veterans - Veterans (va.gov)

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Re-Entry Search Services (VRSS)- Veterans Re-Entry Search Services (va.gov)