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Jails to Jobs The attitude of employers is often the biggest obstacle to employment for those with criminal records. It’s almost like hitting...

The Pantagraph By Edith Brady-Lunny SPRINGFIELD — A new Illinois law gives a break to ex-offenders who finish high school and other courses whil...

The Marshall Project By Maurica Chammah and Joseph Neff In 2010, Cindy Stubbs was nearing the end of a 14-year sentence in a South Carolina pris...

The Marshall Project By Jason Naradzay First, let me situate you: doors clanging, people yelling, guards barking. The noise in prison is non-sto...

GovLab By Stefaan Verhulst and Andrew J. Zahuranec For years, public-private partnerships (PPPs) have promised to help governments do more for l...

Nature By Virginia Gewin Most applications to academic institutions around the world include a box to check if a student has a criminal history,...

Honolulu Civil Beat By Chad Blair Hawaii's prison population has dropped 5 percent since July 2012, a figure that includes a 12 percent reductio...

The Des Moines Register By Kathy A. Bolten Deb Theeler spent 52 months in prison in the early 2000s — only to find out when she was paroled that...

Tallahassee Democrat By Stephany Bittar and Val Rodriguez Recidivism — the tendency for a formerly incarcerated person to re-offend and return t...

The Fortune Society By Fortune Society Staff Personally and professionally, education opens endless doors. At Fortune, we strive to give each pa...