This publication from the Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council (SPAC) examines data on recidivism in the state of Illinois. The brief updates t...
A team of researchers from Arizona State University recently conducted a three-year study on the impact of having a criminal record on employment-rela...
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 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...
The National Reentry Resource Center and the CSG Justice Center released a new edition of Reentry Matters: Strategies and Successes of Second Chance A...
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 report from The Pew Charitable Trusts examines data on prison populations and crime in Utah since changes to policies and practices took place in...
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 ICF International discusses the impact of wrongful convictions for victims of crimes. A wrongful conviction is defined as a case in w...