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In Search of the Felon-Friendly Workplace

The New York Times By Mark Obbie Rick Plowman’s business, installing suspended ceilings in offices, schools and hotels, could use new blood. But...

California Enacts Modest Occupational Licensing Reform

Collateral Consequences Resource Center By David Schlussel On September 30, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB 2...

Criminal Stigma, Race, Gender, and Employment: An Expanded Assessment of the Consequences of Imprisonment for Employment

This video from the National Institute of Justice features the findings of Dr. Scott Decker, Director of the Arizona State University School of Crimin...

Infographic: Jobs Not Jail

Child support programs and courts across the country are connecting noncustodial parents to job services as an alternative to jail. At a relatively lo...

The Sister of Second Chances

The New York Times By John Leland Venita Pinckney grew up around Catholic schools and churches, and she thought she knew about nuns. Then a smal...

April 28, 2021

Webinar: Using Distance-Based Child-Parent Engagement Strategies in Correctional Facilities

In this webinar, Second Chance Act grantee corrections and human services agencies will share strategies for visits, programming, and supports to enco...

Creating Quality Prison Education Programs in Jails – Part 1 in Webinar Series

In partnership with The Council of State Governments Justice Center and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice...

April 26, 2022

Connections to Behavioral Health and Support Services through Reentry

This webinar features two grantees who have utilized innovative ways to provide post-release connections to care for people who are returning to vario...

April 22, 2015

Responding to the Second Chance Act Technology-Based Career Training Program

Hosted by the National Reentry Resource CenterIn this webinar, officials from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance explain th...

Opinion: Out of Jail, Into a Job

Governing By Timothy P. Silard There's no mystery about one of the most effective ways to end mass incarceration in America: reducing...

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