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Second Chance Fellows—About the Visiting Fellows Program

The Office of Justice Programs’ (OJP) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Visiting Fellows Program invests in future and current leaders in the crimina...
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Reentry Spotlight: Understanding and Mitigating the Impacts of Juvenile and Criminal Records

The National Reentry Resource Center (NRRC) serves as a hub of information on reentry, collateral consequences, and records clearance that can assist ...

Reentry Spotlight: Voting Rights for Individuals Involved in the Criminal Legal System

Beyond the nearly 2 million people in the U.S. who are incarcerated, tens of millions more (1 in 3 Americans) are dealing with the collateral conseque...

Pell Grants will return to prison, but for many, college will still be out of reach

This online article from USA Today discusses the expansion of Pell Grants that were eliminated in the 1994 crime bill for people in prison and ended t...

Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs FY 2024 Budget Request Overview

The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) is the primary grantmaking component of the U.S. Department of Justice and houses the Department’s science a...

Expanding Access to Public Employment for People with Criminal Records

This brief explores how jurisdictions can leverage existing models and national best practices to create pathways to public employment for the many qu...
Clean Slate

Beyond Confidentiality: Modernizing Criminal Record Clearance Policies in the Digital Age

This brief discusses the strategies some states have developed to ensure that clearance remains as effective as possible in the digital age.

Fact Sheet: Changes to Protect Veterans, Students, and Taxpayers and Support Incarcerated Students

In October 2022, the U.S. Department of Education published final regulations for the federal Pell Grant program that promote accountabili...

Expungement: Criminal Records as Reentry Barriers

This article from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) offers a broader discussion, derived from an NIJ-hosted webinar, of the difficulty of clea...

Second Chance Act Reentry Education and Employment Factsheet

This factsheet from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) provides information on the following three current Second Chance Act (SCA) investme...

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