This report from the Urban Institute examines criminal background checks as a significant collateral consequence for people in the justice system and ...
Many localities have in recent years regulated the use of questions about criminal history in hiring, or “banned the box.” This publication, from AEI,...
This report is the result of a gathering of 20 local leaders from across the country who came together to form the National League of Cities Housing T...
This policy brief from the Sentencing Project describes key state legislation and reforms from 2018 that were designed to reduce the scale of incarcer...
This three-year pilot project tests innovative strategies to reduce recidivism and increase job readiness for people returning to their communities ...
In January 2021, the National Council for Mental Wellbeing with funding from the Opioid Response Network (ORN) hosted a technical expert panel (TEP)...
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...
Job applicants with criminal records are much less likely than those without them to obtain legitimate employment. Recent efforts to address this prob...
Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration, Linking to Employment Activities Pre-release (LEAP) pilots the creati...
This new interactive report from the Vera Institute of Justice identifies the major trends and developments in justice systems that occurred across th...