This policy brief from the Sentencing Project describes key state legislation and reforms from 2018 that were designed to reduce the scale of incarcer...
This report from the Vera Institute of Justice offers lessons from the field on the implementation of the Second Chance Pell Pilot Program in correcti...
This report from the Vera Institute of Justice is a summary of the Pell Reinstatement regulations and requirements developed by the U.S. Department of...
This article in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology is the second article stemming from a study of the post-release behavior of wrongfully con...
Risk assessment instruments figure prominently in current criminal justice reforms, but their use is controversial. The principal concern is that bene...
This report from ICF International discusses the impact of wrongful convictions for victims of crimes. A wrongful conviction is defined as a case in w...
This report from the Urban Institute examines criminal background checks as a significant collateral consequence for people in the justice system and ...
Each year, the increasing number of people who have opioid addictions impacts communities across the United States. In 2016, substance overdoses (fuel...