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Office of General Counsel Guidance on Application of Fair Housing Act Standards to the Use of Criminal Records by Providers of Housing and Real Estate-Related Transactions

This resource is part of The Federal Interagency Reentry Council's A Record of Progress and a Roadmap for the Future. In April 20...
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Unlicensed & Untapped: Removing Barriers to State Occupational Licenses for People with Records

This paper, from the National Employment Law Project (NELP) examines significant flaws in state occupational licensing criminal background c...

Connecting People Returning from Incarceration with Housing and Homelessness Assistance

This tipsheet from the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness provides practical tips for how corrections agencies, reentry service providers, state...

Opinion: How Federal Investments Make Us Smarter about Reducing Recidivism

By Michael Thompson Director, The Council of State Governments Justice Center Criminologists routinely lament politicians who, responding to headli...

CSG Justice Center, Chief Probation Officers of California Launch New Policy Fellowship

By the NRRC Staff With more than 200,000 people in California currently in state or local correctional institutions, “reentry” is an issue of uniqu...

The Consideration of Criminal Records in Hiring Decisions

This factsheet, produced by the CSG Justice Center’s National Reentry Resource Center in partnership with the National Employment Law Project, is de...

For the Formerly Incarcerated, Peer Mentoring Can Offer Chance to ‘Give Back’

By Maureen Richey, CSG Justice CenterAt Detroit Central City Community Mental Health in Wayne County, Michigan, clients used to arrive to see their cl...

Collaborative Case Work with Justice Involved Women

This report, from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), provides a description of the Collaborative Case Work Model for Justice-Involved Women ...

Occupational Licensing: A Framework For Policymakers

This resource is part of The Federal Interagency Reentry Council's A Record of Progress and a Roadmap for the Future. This report pre...

South Carolina Business, Community, and Corrections Leaders Gather in Greenville to Discuss Employing People with Criminal Records

Nearly one in three adults in South Carolina—1.1 million people—have a criminal record. Many of them also have trouble finding a job, not necessarily ...

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