Brief Resources

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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...
This brief explores how jurisdictions can leverage existing models and national best practices to create pathways to public employment for the many qu...
This brief discusses the strategies some states have developed to ensure that clearance remains as effective as possible in the digital age.
This article from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) offers a broader discussion, derived from an NIJ-hosted webinar, of the difficulty of clea...
According to this article from The Council of State Governments Justice Center, with an affordable housing crisis across the U.S., it is i...
This article from The Council of State Governments Justice Center (CSG) answers frequently asked questions about Continuum of Cares (CoCs') unique rol...
This brief shares examples and lessons gleaned from Vera’s varied and continued experience through the Opening Doors: Safely Increasing Access to Publ...
This brief from The Sentencing Project details that, in 2020, 5.2 million Americans were prohibited from voting due to laws that disenfranchise citize...
On June 23, 2021, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia L. Fudge outlined actions that the Department is taking to i...
As this brief from the Prison Policy Initiative explores, most people in jail are legally eligible to vote, but in practice, they cannot. This “de fac...