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...
Job applicants with criminal records are much less likely than those without them to obtain legitimate employment. Recent efforts to address this prob...
This report from the Urban Institute examines criminal background checks as a significant collateral consequence for people in the justice system and ...
The National Reentry Resource Center and the CSG Justice Center released a new edition of Reentry Matters: Strategies and Successes of Second Chance A...
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 report from the Vera Institute of Justice offers lessons from the field on the implementation of the Second Chance Pell Pilot Program in correcti...
The past several years have seen a surge of interest in using risk assessment in criminal sentencing, both to reduce recidivism and to reduce prison p...
By CSG Justice Center Staff As states across the country adopt changes in their Medicaid programs, people who were previously ineligible for coverage...
Risk assessment instruments figure prominently in current criminal justice reforms, but their use is controversial. The principal concern is that bene...
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...