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Justice Department Guide to State Voting Rules that Apply after Criminal Convictions

The Justice Department announced the release of a guide to the state voting rules that apply after criminal convictions. This document is designed to ...
Clean Slate

Providing a Clean Slate: Removing Barriers to Employment

This report highlights that, no matter its severity, a criminal record carries a heavy burden, leading to decreased employment opportunities, less tha...
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...
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Collateral Consequences: The Crossroads of Punishment, Redemption, and the Effects on Communities

As this report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights details, each year, federal and state prisons release more than 620,000 people to return ...
Clean Slate

Beyond Totem and Taboo: Toward a Narrowing of American Criminal Record Exceptionalism

As this article discusses, conviction records activate an increasingly broad range of de jure and de facto disabilities and restrictions that are, the...

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