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What Prisoners Need to Know

This brief from the Social Security Administration provides practical information about eligibility for and treatment of Social Securit...

Resource Brief: Participatory Research: What Is It and How Can It Strengthen Your Reentry Program Evaluation?

This infographic from the Evaluation and Sustainability Training and Technical Assistance (ES TTA) team provides an overview of participatory research...

Child Support and Reentry

The National Institute of Justice  (NIJ) released this white paper focused on what social scientists and policy analysts have learned about how child ...

Midwestern States Share Innovative Strategies for Hiring People with Criminal Records

By the CSG Justice Center StaffIn 2012, three Michigan-based employers—Butterball Farms, Cascade Engineering, and Grand Rapids Community College—set o...

Entering the Community After Incarceration — How We Can Help

Part of the Social Security Administration's Benefits after Incarceration: What You Need To Know, this brief from explains what happens...
Clean Slate

For the Record: Candid Conversations about Criminal Record Clearance—Episode 3, Bettie Kirkland

Episode 3 Bettie Kirkland, the executive director of Project Return in Nashville, joins For the Record to discuss her organizati...

July 1, 2015

Southern States Discuss Challenges and Opportunities Related to Hiring Adults with Criminal Records

By the CSG Justice Center Staff An estimated 70 million people in the U.S. have a criminal record, and the South is the region with the highest inc...

Justice Briefing Live: Reducing Structural Barriers to School and Work for People with Juvenile Records

The Council of State Governments Justice Center conducted a first of its kind analysis of these collateral consequences in 12 states and...
Clean Slate

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...
Clean Slate

For the Record: Candid Conversations about Criminal Record Clearance—Episode 2, Esta Bigler

Episode 2 Esta Bigler, the director of the Cornell University Industrial and Labor Relations School's Labor and Employment Law program, joins For t...

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