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Unstitching Scarlet Letters? Prosecutorial Discretion and Expungement

This article, from the Fordham Law Review, argues that scholarly discussions related to prosecutorial discretion need to extend their focus beyond the...
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Shackled to Debt: Criminal Justice Financial Obligations and the Barriers to Re-Entry They Create

This report, from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), is one in a series of papers published as a result of the Executive Session on Community Co...

Background Checks: Tips for Job Applicants and Employees

This guide from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) explains the legal rights of job applicants and employees regarding background chec...
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The Price We Pay: Economic Costs of Barriers to Employment for Former Prisoners and People Convicted of Felonies

This report, from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), builds off of prior CEPR research examining the population of former prisoners a...

Beyond the Box Resource Guide

The U.S. Department of Education published the Beyond the Box Resource Guide to help colleges and universities remove potential barriers to ...

A Reentry Education Model: An Implementation Study

This resource is part of The Federal Interagency Reentry Council's A Record of Progress and a Roadmap for the Future. In 2012, the U....
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Boxed Out: Criminal History Screening and College Application Attrition

This report, from the Center for Community Alternatives, builds upon what was revealed in their 2010 study, "The Use of Criminal History Records in Co...
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Sealing the Record: An Analysis of Jurisdictional Variations of Juvenile Sex Offender Record Sealing Laws

This paper, from Case Western Reserve University School of Law's Health Matrix Journal of Law-Medicine, will compare competing jurisdictions’ policies...

June 29, 2016

Addressing the Housing Needs of Youth and Young Adults in Contact with the Justice System

Hosted by the National Reentry Resource Center and the Coalition for Juvenile Justice, with funding support from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bure...

Environmental Programs Grow a Better Prison System

GreenBiz By Sarah Hicks The Prison Policy Initiative creates a yearly pie chart that details the makeup of the U.S. prison system. In ...

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