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Expanding the Vote: State Felony Disenfranchisement Reform, 1997-2023

This report provides a state-by-state accounting of the changes to voting rights for people with felony convictions and measures their impact. Since 1...

Clearing a Path, from Conviction to Employment

By Madeline Neighly and Ashleigh Fryer, CSG Justice Center Staff When Ronald was convicted in 2006 of two misdemeanors—possession and retail ...
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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...

July 1, 2015

Southern States Discuss Challenges and Opportunities Related to Hiring Adults with Criminal Records

By the CSG Justice Center Staff An estimated 70 million people in the U.S. have a criminal record, and the South is the region with the highest inc...

June 12, 2018

Considerations for Journalists Writing about People Who Have Criminal Histories

Hosted by the Clean Slate Clearinghouse with funding support from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration and the U.S. D...

Reentry Spotlight: Voting Rights for Individuals Involved in the Criminal Legal System

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...

A Look Back at the 2024 Second Chance Act Conference

In December 2024, 700 reentry leaders, experts, and Second Chance Act (SCA) grantees from across the country gathered in Philadelphia for the 2024 Sec...

Midwestern States Share Innovative Strategies for Hiring People with Criminal Records

By the CSG Justice Center StaffIn 2012, three Michigan-based employers—Butterball Farms, Cascade Engineering, and Grand Rapids Community College—set o...

Reentry Essentials: An Overview of Employment and Correctional Education

By CSG Justice Center Staff This is the first in a series of posts on aspects of successful reentry. Each post will include curated resources r...

Locked Out 2022: Estimates of People Denied Voting Rights

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...

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