This three-year pilot project tests innovative strategies to reduce recidivism and increase job readiness for people returning to their communities ...
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 from the Urban Institute highlights Colorado's Work and Gain Education and Employment Skills (WAGEES) program, which represents one of the...
This report from the Vera Institute of Justice is a summary of the Pell Reinstatement regulations and requirements developed by the U.S. Department of...
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...
This four-volume report from the Academy for Justice at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law covers dozens of topics within t...
By Darian Hanrahan
According to a 2014 meta-analysis by the RAND Corporation, adults who participated in correctional education programs were shown t...
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 Vera Institute of Justice offers lessons from the field on the implementation of the Second Chance Pell Pilot Program in correcti...