As this brief from the Prison Policy Initiative explores, most people in jail are legally eligible to vote, but in practice, they cannot. This “de fac...
In 2014, Juvenile Law Center published the first-ever comprehensive evaluation of each state’s juvenile record confidentiality and expungement laws ag...
By CSG Justice Center StaffFor the more than 70 million adults in the U.S. who have a criminal record, and the more than one million youth who acquire...
This report, from Code for America, is part of their effort to help make the case for policy reforms that are driven by the aggregate experiences of r...
Policymakers from across the political spectrum are considering policies to clear some types of criminal records. Criminal record clearance removes ...
By Ashleigh Fryer, CSG Justice CenterSeveral days after Cortney was arrested on drug charges in October 2016, she called her mother from Nebraska’s Do...
This report, from Urban Institute, explores the two main types of criminal background checks used by employers in the United States: those requiring j...
In this report, from Urban Institute, the authors review the evidence on job access for people with criminal records, racial discrimination in the job...