In January 2021, the National Council for Mental Wellbeing with funding from the Opioid Response Network (ORN) hosted a technical expert panel (TEP)...
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...
Californians with convictions face over 4,800 laws that impose harmful collateral consequences long after successful completion of a sentence, most of...
This report from the Urban Institute examines criminal background checks as a significant collateral consequence for people in the justice system and ...
This report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics examines seasonal patterns in violent and household property incidents in the United States from 199...
This publication from the Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council (SPAC) examines data on recidivism in the state of Illinois. The brief updates t...
By Darian Hanrahan
According to a 2014 meta-analysis by the RAND Corporation, adults who participated in correctional education programs were shown t...
This publication from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) identifies five evidence-based principles guiding federal efforts to improve the correction...
Job applicants with criminal records are much less likely than those without them to obtain legitimate employment. Recent efforts to address this prob...
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...