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Fact Sheet: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Takes Action During Second Chance Month to Strengthen Public Safety, Improve Rehabilitation in Jails and Prisons, and Support Successful Reentry

At the conclusion of Second Chance Month 2023, the Biden-Harris administration released an evidence-informed, multi-year Alternatives, Rehabilitation,...

Work Assignments Reported by Prisoners, 2016

This U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics report provides statistics on whether individuals in prison were required to have a work assignment, the types ...

Look Beyond Recidivism: How to Capture Your Reentry Program's Impact

This brief from RTI International and The Center for Justice Innovation (formerly The Center for Court Innovation) encourages reentry program staff an...

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...

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...

Providing Robust Evidence for High-Stakes Decision-Making

This article from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) provides an overview of reentry, focusing on NIJ’s contributions to the field and identifyin...
Clean Slate

The Limits of Ban-the-Box Legislation

This Institute for Research on Labor and Employment brief serves to provide policy recommendations on Ban-the-Box (BtB), employment, and reentry. T...

Recidivism Rates: What You Need to Know

The rate at which people return to prison following release is a key measure of the performance of the nation’s criminal justice system,...
Clean Slate

The Power of a Clean Slate

According to recently conducted an empirical analysis of record clearing that they believe has made important inroads into what is known about expunge...

Surveying Participants to Strengthen Behavioral Health-Criminal Justice Programs

According to this brief from The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center, participant satisfaction surveys help behavioral health-...

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