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Laying the Groundwork: How States Can Improve Access to Continued Education for People in the Criminal Justice System

This report provides a comprehensive, state-by-state analysis of postsecondary education policy and practices.
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Expungement Reform in Arizona: The Empirical Case for a Clean Slate

This journal article from Sonja B. Starr argues that Arizona should adopt an expungement law, ideally joining the “Clean Slate” movement to make expun...

Innovations in Supervision Initiatives: Grantees at a Glance

Through the Innovations in Supervision Initiative (ISI), the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance provides grants a...
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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 ...

National Reentry Resource Center Launches Clean Slate Clearinghouse

By CSG Justice Center StaffFor the more than 70 million adults in the U.S. who have a criminal record, and the more than one million youth who acquire...

Reentry Essentials: A Look at National Progress on the 10th Anniversary of the Second Chance Act

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

Second Chance Act Spotlight: Grant Awards Help Iowa Corrections Officers Focus Efforts to Improve Reentry Outcomes

By CSG Justice Center Staff When change came to the Iowa Department of Corrections (DOC), then corrections officer Ernie Galbreath was on the groun...
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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...

Expand Criminal Record Clearance Policies

Policymakers from across the political spectrum are considering policies to clear some types of criminal records. Criminal record clearance removes ...

Sustaining Systems Change: Findings from a Transition from Jail to Community Initiative Stakeholder Survey

The Transition from Jail to Community (TJC) initiative seeks to improve public safety and to enhance the success of individuals returning ...

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The National Reentry Resource Center is operated by the Council of State Governments Justice Center and supported by Grant No. 15PBJA-23-GK-05503-MUMU awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.