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Reentry Programs Open Educational Doors: Felicia’s Story

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

Daily Trojan By Erica Hur After he was released from prison in January 2014, Aris Mangasarian found it difficult to find the resources to apply ...

Portland Tribune By Peter Korn Robert Lyday never even made it past the sidewalk in front of the Old Town Greyhound bus station. He’d been re...

Chicago Tribune By Jamie Dimon and Arne Duncan Even as the labor market tightens and more than 6 million U.S. jobs remain unfilled, the search f...

WKTV It was a different type of commencement ceremony Tuesday–in an unlikely place–the Oneida County Jail, and the graduates were inmates. M...

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...

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

Associated Press By David Eggert Gov. Rick Snyder is ordering the state to no longer ask job applicants and people seeking certain occupational ...

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

The Post and Courier By Glenn Smith When inmates finished serving time in Columbia's state prisons, their first encoun...