This report from the Urban Institute examines criminal background checks as a significant collateral consequence for people in the justice system and ...
By Darian Hanrahan
According to a 2014 meta-analysis by the RAND Corporation, adults who participated in correctional education programs were shown t...
More than 150 cities and counties and 34 states and Washington, DC, have adopted ban-the-box policies, which remove questions about criminal history f...
This publication from the Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council (SPAC) examines data on recidivism in the state of Illinois. The brief updates t...
A team of researchers from Arizona State University recently conducted a three-year study on the impact of having a criminal record on employment-rela...
During 2016, at least 17 states adopted reforms that are targeted at reducing prison populations and addressing collateral consequences for people wit...
This compendium includes material drawn from Brennan Center reports, policy proposals, issue briefs, public remarks, legal briefs, and congressional t...
Advocates and legislators across the political spectrum celebrated the passage of the First Step Act in December of 2018, the first large federal pris...
This article in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology is the second article stemming from a study of the post-release behavior of wrongfully con...