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Fair Chance Licensing Project: States Expand Access to In-Demand Jobs

As states across the nation struggle with labor shortages, The Council of State Governments Justice Center launched the Fair Chance Lice...

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.

Removing Structural Barriers to Employment: A Playbook for Every State

The national playbook identifies best practice goals and strategies that states can implement to reduce the negative impacts of employment-related col...
Clean Slate

Reentry Spotlight: Understanding and Mitigating the Impacts of Juvenile and Criminal Records

The National Reentry Resource Center (NRRC) serves as a hub of information on reentry, collateral consequences, and records clearance that can assist ...

Reentry Myth Busters

The Reentry Myth Busters are a series of fact sheets created by the partner agencies within the Federal Interagency Reentry Council...

Locked Out: Improving Educational and Vocational Outcomes for Incarcerated Youth

This issue brief highlights the key findings of the survey and provides state and local policymakers with policy and practice recommendations to impro...

April 4, 2022

National Corrections & Recidivism Statistics

Moderated by BJS Corrections Statistics Unit Chief Richard Klückow, this Second Chance Month 2022 event features BJS Statisticians Leonardo Antenangel...

Recidivism of Females Released from State Prison, 2012–2017

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...

Colorado Community-Based Reentry Program Lowers Recidivism: Study

The Crime Report By TCR Staff Why has crime declined in the U.S. over recent decades? A new Urban Institute report on a Colora...

When Pre-Release Optimism Meets Post-Release Reality: Understanding Reentry Success Through a Longitudinal Framework Assessing Pre- and Post-Release Perceptions

In the identity theory of desistance, optimism is important to individual transformation. Yet, as the authors of this article assert, unfounded optimi...

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