CantonRepBy Ed BalintShannon Ballas flashed a bright smile when she appeared before the judge in re-entry court.She was given a certificate for comply...
This report, from the National Employment Law Project (NELP), explores the exclusion of people with criminal records from work, which severely impacts...
This report from the National Employment Law Project (NELP), documents both the failings and accomplishments of the Transportation Worker Identificati...
Californians with convictions face over 4,800 laws that impose harmful collateral consequences long after successful completion of a sentence, most of...
More than 150 cities and counties and 34 states and Washington, DC, have adopted ban-the-box policies, which remove questions about criminal history f...
This report from The Pew Charitable Trusts highlights findings from an evaluation of Louisiana’s Act 402 (House Bill 423), which sets a 90-day sentenc...
This policy brief from the Sentencing Project describes key state legislation and reforms from 2018 that were designed to reduce the scale of incarcer...
In this article in Issues in Science and Technology, Stefan F. LoBuglio and Anne Morrison Piehl explore the challenges that local jurisdictions face i...
Job applicants with criminal records are much less likely than those without them to obtain legitimate employment. Recent efforts to address this prob...