In December 2024, 700 reentry leaders, experts, and Second Chance Act (SCA) grantees from across the country gathered in Philadelphia for the 2024 Sec...
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...
As discussed in this policy fact sheet from The Health and Reentry Project (HARP), a series of policy changes are authorizing Medicaid to cover some h...
At the conclusion of Second Chance Month 2023, the Biden-Harris administration released an evidence-informed, multi-year Alternatives, Rehabilitation,...
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...
This resource from Bureau of Justice Assistance Second Chance Visiting Fellow John Bae introduces a framework to develop reentry ecosystems and highli...
