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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 discusses the strategies some states have developed to ensure that clearance remains as effective as possible in the digital age.
This brief explores how jurisdictions can leverage existing models and national best practices to create pathways to public employment for the many qu...
This article from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) offers a broader discussion, derived from an NIJ-hosted webinar, of the difficulty of clea...
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...
Policymakers from across the political spectrum are considering policies to clear some types of criminal records. Criminal record clearance removes ...
By Ashleigh Fryer, CSG Justice CenterIn Allegheny County, PA, the state’s Workforce Investment Board estimates that there will be more than 8,000 unfi...
By the CSG Justice CenterOn April 4, the Office of General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued “Guidance on A...