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April 11, 2022

Clean Slate

Clean Slate Policies: Clearing the Way for Real Second Chances

This panel (1) explores the barriers criminal records present, (2) highlights the work CSI has done and some of the states leading the way in clean sl...

Paving the Path to Healthier Reentry: How New Medicaid Policies Can Improve Mental Health and Substance Use Support as People Return to Communities

According to this brief from The Health and Reentry Project (HARP), new Medicaid policies have great potential to benefit people with mental health co...
Clean Slate

Failed Policies, Forfeited Futures: Revisiting a Nationwide Scorecard on Juvenile Records

In 2014, Juvenile Law Center published the first-ever comprehensive evaluation of each state’s juvenile record confidentiality and expungement laws ag...

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 ...

Implement Fair Chance Hiring Policies

A broad menu of reforms, which some localities have deemed “fair-chance” laws, incorporate “ban the box” policies, which delay inquiry into a criminal...

May 17, 2017

From the Correctional System to the Workforce: How State Policies Can Support Reentry

Hosted by The National Skills CoalitionEach year, tens of thousands of US adults make the transition from incarceration back to their homes and commun...

Connecting to Those Impacted by Criminal Justice Policies

Right On Crime By Elaine Ellerbe On August 14th, 2017 the Face to Face Initiative was launched across the U.S. Engaging in a wave of publi...

Building Connections to Housing During Reentry: Results from a Questionnaire on DOC Housing Policies, Programs, and Needs

The Council of State Governments Justice Center, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, Bur...
Clean Slate

Beyond Confidentiality: Modernizing Criminal Record Clearance Policies in the Digital Age

This brief discusses the strategies some states have developed to ensure that clearance remains as effective as possible in the digital age.

Expanding the Vote: State Felony Disenfranchisement Reform, 1997-2023

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...

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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.