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Opinion: Out of Jail, Into a Job

Governing By Timothy P. Silard There's no mystery about one of the most effective ways to end mass incarceration in America: reducing...

Prison Unit Helps Inmates Prepare for Freedom

News Channel 3 By News Channel 3 Staff Every morning, Amelia Stem wakes up, pulls her clothes from the closet and gets ready for work. S...

Colorado Community-Based Reentry Program Lowers Recidivism: Study

The Crime Report By TCR Staff Why has crime declined in the U.S. over recent decades? A new Urban Institute report on a Colora...

Training the Brain to Stay out of Jail

The Marshall Project By Eli Hager Growing up in public housing in North Charleston, S.C., in the 1970s, David Hayward was familiar with poverty,...

Rural Re-entry Program Saves Money, Lives, Director Says

Herald Chronicle A resounding success, the Middle Tennessee Rural Re-entry Program boasts a drastic reduction in the recidivism rate for those part...

Michigan Drops Conviction Box from Job, License Applications

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

End "Stovepipe Approach" to Public Safety, State Officials Told

The Crime Report By Ted Gest To many Americans, “criminal justice reform” means addressing two prominent challenges: reining in abusive police o...

Opinion: Integrating the Social Safety Net into America’s Prisons

Salon By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson President Trump signed the First Step Act into law on December 21. The legislation represen...

Can Hiring Ex-Offenders Make a Business More Profitable?

The Guardian By Autumn Spanne Jimmy Erickson went to prison for a violent felony when he was 25. When he was released, at 46, he felt reformed a...

Opinion: Tightening Access to Criminal Records

BusinessWest.com By Brad McDougall The Massachusetts Legislature recently passed a criminal-justice reform bill that narrows the ability of empl...

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