Press Clips

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 ...

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

County News By Rachel Looker Citizens who committed low-level crimes in the state of Utah are getting a second chance to have a “clean slate” th...

FoxBusiness.com By Kate Rogers Under the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid, 25 states and the District of Columbia have broaden their ...

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

The Times Herald “He who opens a school door, closes a prison,” said French author Victor Hugo. Perhaps it’s not an apples and oranges compariso...

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

Washington Examiner By Naomi Lim Arizona is starting a program designed to help newly released prisoners assimilate into their communities ...

The Crime Report By Crime Report Staff When an analysis found that Miami-Dade County spent nearly $14 million in combined jail and health care c...

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...