Age

Audiences

Event Type

Media Type

News Type

Resource Type

Topics

447 resultsUse filters at left to refine your results.

How State-Led Housing Initiatives Can Break the Cycle of Criminal Justice Involvement

Improving access to safe and affordable housing is integral to any efforts aimed at reducing peoples’ involvement in the criminal justic...

Building Capacity to Advance Local System Change for People with Behavioral Health Needs: A Snapshot of State-Led Solutions

As discussed in this brief from The Council of State Governments Justice Center, state and local jurisdictions are taking new approaches to ...
Clean Slate

Failed Policies, Forfeited Futures: Revisiting a Nationwide Scorecard on Juvenile Records

In 2014, Juvenile Law Center published the first-ever comprehensive evaluation of each state’s juvenile record confidentiality and expungement laws ag...

Changing Systems, Changing Behavior: Five Ways Corrections Agencies Can Work to Reduce Recidivism

This brief highlights five emerging strategies that state corrections agencies have employed to implement an evidence-based approach to reducing recid...
Clean Slate

The Washington State Second Chance Expungement Gap

This journal article out of Santa Clara University identifies and estimates the “second chance gap” in Washington's “expungements” to determine the sh...
Clean Slate

Expungement Reform in Arizona: The Empirical Case for a Clean Slate

This journal article from Sonja B. Starr argues that Arizona should adopt an expungement law, ideally joining the “Clean Slate” movement to make expun...
Clean Slate

Can a Person's "Slate" Ever Really Be "Cleaned"? The Modern-Day Implications of Pennsylvania's Clean Slate Act

This report argues that Pennsylvania’s Clean Slate Act is both important and necessary because of the assistance it provides, even with the current is...
Clean Slate

Collateral Consequences: The Crossroads of Punishment, Redemption, and the Effects on Communities

As this report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights details, each year, federal and state prisons release more than 620,000 people to return ...

Second Chance Act Q&A: Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts

By CSG Justice Center Staff Gov. Pete Ricketts meets Face to Face with corrections staff and participants of services offered ...

Second Chance Month Q&A: U.S. Representative Jim Sensenbrenner

By CSG Justice Center Staff U.S. Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI). This Second Chance Month, The Coun...

Department of Justice Logo BJA Logo

OJJDP Logo

CSG Justice Center

©NRRC 2026 — Privacy policy

The National Reentry Resource Center is operated by the Council of State Governments Justice Center and supported by Grant No. 15PBJA-23-GK-05503-MUMU awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.