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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.

Limiting Employer Liability: Addressing the Perceived Risks of Hiring Workers with Criminal Histories

This brief examines the legislative action that states have taken to limit the risks—real or perceived—of negligent hiring liability faced by employer...

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...

Employment of State and Federal Prisoners Prior to Incarceration, 2016

In this online article, the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics shares key fin...

Voting Rights Briefs for 13 States

The Sentencing Project is committed to expanding voting rights in every state and works with state partners to provide data on state felony disenfranc...

How Three Communities are Developing Supportive Housing to Improve Access for People with Behavioral Health Needs Leaving Incarceration

According to this article from The Council of State Governments Justice Center, the affordable housing crisis has increased the need for n...

Preferred Terms for Select Population Groups and Communities

This online tool from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Health Communication Gateway provides preferred nomenclature for sele...

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...

Trauma and Prospects for Reentry

This Annual Review of Criminology published by Annual Reviews explores the prevalence and impact of trauma on individuals with incarceration hi...

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The National Reentry Resource Center is operated by the Council of State Governments Justice Center and supported by Grant No. 15PBJA-23-GK-05503-MUMU awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.