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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...

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

GreenBiz By Sarah Hicks The Prison Policy Initiative creates a yearly pie chart that details the makeup of the U.S. prison system. In ...

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...

The Beaver County Times By Marsha Keefer James Hammerly, 36, called himself a “frequent flyer,” cycling in and out of jail most of his adult lif...

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...

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

NJTV News By Erin Delmore “When a fellow coming out of prison gets a job, it helps everyone,” said Sen. Cory Booker. A million dollar federal...

Star Tribune By Glenn Howatt On his release from prison in December 2013, Gregory Odeneal had secured a place to live. He had studied his respon...

USA Today By Chris Kenning LOUISVILLE — After three months in jail on a theft charge, Vincent Garcia had prepared last week to collect his ...