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Clean Slate

Collateral Costs: Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility

With this report, from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the author's inquiry focuses on the intersection of incarceration and mobility, fields tha...
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For the Record: Candid Conversations about Criminal Record Clearance—Episode 3, Bettie Kirkland

Episode 3 Bettie Kirkland, the executive director of Project Return in Nashville, joins For the Record to discuss her organizati...

July 1, 2015

Southern States Discuss Challenges and Opportunities Related to Hiring Adults with Criminal Records

By the CSG Justice Center Staff An estimated 70 million people in the U.S. have a criminal record, and the South is the region with the highest inc...

Expand Criminal Record Clearance Policies

Policymakers from across the political spectrum are considering policies to clear some types of criminal records. Criminal record clearance removes ...
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The Power of a Clean Slate

According to recently conducted an empirical analysis of record clearing that they believe has made important inroads into what is known about expunge...

Justice Briefing Live: Reducing Structural Barriers to School and Work for People with Juvenile Records

The Council of State Governments Justice Center conducted a first of its kind analysis of these collateral consequences in 12 states and...
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Beyond Totem and Taboo: Toward a Narrowing of American Criminal Record Exceptionalism

As this article discusses, conviction records activate an increasingly broad range of de jure and de facto disabilities and restrictions that are, the...
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Boxed Out: Criminal History Screening and College Application Attrition

This report, from the Center for Community Alternatives, builds upon what was revealed in their 2010 study, "The Use of Criminal History Records in Co...
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Wanted: Accurate FBI Background Checks for Employment

This report from the National Employment Law Project (NELP), discusses inaccuracies in FBI records and calls on the FBI to ensure that records are acc...
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For the Record: Candid Conversations about Criminal Record Clearance—Episode 2, Esta Bigler

Episode 2 Esta Bigler, the director of the Cornell University Industrial and Labor Relations School's Labor and Employment Law program, joins For t...

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