In December 2024, 700 reentry leaders, experts, and Second Chance Act (SCA) grantees from across the country gathered in Philadelphia for the 2024 Sec...
Good jobs are the foundation of a healthy economy, one that lifts up workers and families and supports local communities. To access good jobs—those th...
A patchwork of state felony disfranchisement laws, varying in severity from state to state, prevent millions of Americans with felony (and in several ...
The Restoration of Rights Project provides detailed state-by-state analyses of the law and practice in each U.S. jurisdiction for restoration of right...
This map from the Brennan Center for Justice summarizes state laws on criminal disenfranchisement. These laws strip voting rights from people with pas...
In the identity theory of desistance, optimism is important to individual transformation. Yet, as the authors of this article assert, unfounded optimi...
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...
With this solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding to deliver training and technical assistance to Second C...
This report from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) presents findings on recidivism of females from BJS’s study on persons released from stat...
The studies featured in this brief from the Sentencing Project underscore the beneficial impacts of restoring voting rights for all Americans who have...
