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Research & Commentary: Lowering Professional Licensing Barriers for Ex-Offenders

The Heartland Institute By Matthew Glans Nearly one in three Americans need an occupational license to do their job, even though these...

The Need for a Helping Hand

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...

Reentry Week Programs for Formerly Incarcerated

New Haven Register By Clare Dignan About 100 people come out of prison to return home to the city every month. This week begins an awareness cam...

Reentry Center 'Grads' Share Struggles, Successes

Village Soup By Fran Gonzalez Four Maine Coastal Regional Reentry Center graduates described their personal paths to sobriety and recovery ...

LIC Nonprofit Helps Formerly Incarcerated Women Readjust

Queens Tribune By Jon Cronin Over the past 25 years, Hour Children, a nonprofit that aids formerly incarcerated women with children trying to ge...

Shifting Social Gears to Tackle Poverty, Recidivism

The Heights By Alessandro Zenati Outside the double doors of an atrium leading to Google’s Cambridge headquarters, in the center of the MIT acad...

Work for Success Causes More than 1,000 Businesses to Hire Nearly 2,000 New Yorkers

Riverheadlocal.com Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced updated placement numbers and other significant accomplishments in connecting formerly ...

Opinion: Clean the Slate for Nonviolent Offenders

By Stephen A. Zappala Jr., Allegheny County District Attorney For the past 20 years, my office has prosecuted hundreds of thousands of criminal cas...

California Enacts Modest Occupational Licensing Reform

Collateral Consequences Resource Center By David Schlussel On September 30, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB 2...

Justice Department Announces $53 Million in Grant Awards to Reduce Recidivism Among Adults and Youth

U.S. Department of Justice The Justice Department announced today that it will award grants totaling $53 million to 45 jurisdictions, to reduce rec...

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