In the identity theory of desistance, optimism is important to individual transformation. Yet, as the authors of this article assert, unfounded optimi...
This report from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) presents findings on recidivism of females from BJS’s study on persons released from stat...
The Alternatives and Reentry Strategic Plan, from the White House Domestic Policy Council (DPC), is a multi-year blueprint that applies a whole-of-g...
According to this report from The Sentencing Project, laws in 48 states ban people with felony convictions from voting. The report shows that, in 2022...
According to this report to Congress from the Reentry Coordination Council, each year, about 600,000 people in the United States enter prisons; and ...
This report highlights that, no matter its severity, a criminal record carries a heavy burden, leading to decreased employment opportunities, less tha...
This report from the National Consumer Law Center and the Collateral Consequences Resource Center explores the extent to which court debt—such as crim...
This U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report is the 29th in a series that began in 1981. It includes characteristics of the population such a...
This report presents statistics on both pre-prison and post-prison employment and median earnings, differentiated by age, sex, race and ethnicity, mos...
This report from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) responds to the U.S. House of Representatives' Committees on Appropriations directive to cond...
