Reports
CCRC reports
Access Barriers to Felony Expungement: The Case of Illinois (Feb. 2021)
The Reintegration Agenda During Pandemic: Criminal Record Reforms in 2020 (Jan. 2021)
Who Must Pay to Regain the Vote? A 50-State Survey (Nov. 2020)
Pathways to Reintegration
Criminal Record Reforms in 2019
Reducing Barriers to Reintegration
Fair chance and expungement reforms in 2018
Second Chance Reforms in 2017
Roundup of new expungement and restoration Laws
Other reports
Ban the Box: U.S. Cities, Counties, and States Adopt Fair Hiring Policies
Continuously updated report by the National Employment Law Project
Out of Prison & Out of Work: Unemployment among formerly incarcerated people
2018 report by Lucius Couloute & Daniel Kopf, Prison Policy Initiative
Nowhere to Go: Homelessness among formerly incarcerated people
2018 report by Lucius Couloute, Prison Policy Initiative
Getting Back on Course: Educational attainment and exclusion among formerly incarcerated people
2018 report by Lucius Couloute, Prison Policy Initiative
Repairing the Road to Redemption in California
2018 report by Californians for Safety and Justice
Does a Criminal Past Predict Worker Performance? Evidence from One of America’s Largest Employers
2017 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office
Criminal Background Checks and Access to Jobs: A Case Study of Washington, DC
2017 report by the Urban Institute
Criminal Background Checks: Impact on Employment and Recidivism
2017 report by the Urban Institute
Back to Business: How Hiring Formerly Incarcerated Job Seekers Benefits Your Company
2017 report by the American Civil Liberties Union
Ban the Box and Racial Discrimination: A Review of the Evidence and Policy Recommendations
2017 report by the Urban Institute
Fair Chance Licensing Reform: Opening Pathways for People with Records to Join Licensed Professions
2017 report by the National Employment Law Project
Collateral Consequences: Protecting Public Safety or Encouraging Recidivism?
2017 report by the Heritage Foundation
2016 report by Stephen Slivinski, Center for the Study of Economic Liberty at Arizona State University
2016 report by the Joshua Aiken, Prison Policy Initiative
2016 report by National H.I.R.E. Network
2016 report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research
Putting Time Limits on the Punitiveness of the Criminal Justice System
2016 policy memo by Anne Morrison Piehl of The Hamilton Project
Disenfranchised by Debt: Millions Impoverished by Prison, Blocked from Voting
2016 report by Alliance for a Just Society
6 Million Lost Voters: State-Level Estimates of Felony Disenfranchisement, 2016
2016 report by the Sentencing Project
Racial Profiling in Hiring: A Critique of New “Ban the Box” Studies
2016 policy brief by the National Employment Law Project
Ensuring Fairness in Background Checks for On-Demand Work
2016 policy brief by the National Employment Law Project
Justice in Review: New Trends in State Sentencing and Corrections 2014 – 2015
2016 report by the Vera Institute of Justice discussing collateral consequence relief mechanisms.
Beyond the Box: Increasing Access to Higher Education for Justice-Involved Individuals
2016 report by the U.S. Department of Education
2016 report by the National Employment Law Project
Future Interrupted: The Collateral Damage Caused by Proliferation of Juvenile Records
2016 report by the Juvenile Law Center
Jobs After Jail: Ending the prison to poverty pipeline
2016 report by the Alliance for a Just Society
2015 report by the Center for American Progress
Boxed Out: Criminal History Screening and College Application Attrition
2015 report by the Center for Community Alternatives in cooperation with the Education from the Inside Out Coalition
The State of Sentencing 2014: Developments in Policy and Practice
2015 report by The Sentencing Project
2015 report by the National Employment Law Project (NELP)
National Summit on Collateral Consequences – Conference Report
2015 report by the ABA Criminal Justice Section
Report of House Judiciary Committee hearing on collateral consequences
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Over-Criminalization Task Force (2014)
2014 report of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
2014 report by Rebecca Vallas and Sharon Dietrich published by the Center for American Progress
Relief in Sight? States Rethink the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction, 2009 – 2014
2014 report by The Vera Institute of Justice
Failed Policies, Forfeited Futures: A Nationwide Scorecard on Juvenile Records
2014 report on expungement and confidentiality from the Juvenile Law Center
Juvenile Records: A National Review of State Laws on Confidentiality, Sealing, and Expungement
2014 report from the Juvenile Law Center
2013 report by Human Rights Watch
65 Million “Need Not Apply”: The Case for Reforming Criminal Background Checks for Employment
2011 report by Michelle Natividad Rodriguez & Maurice Emsellem, National Employment Law Project
The Use of Criminal Records in College Admissions Reconsidered
2010 report of the Center for Community Alternatives
Second Chances in the Criminal Justice System: Alternatives to Incarceration and Reentry Strategies
2008 report by the ABA Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions
NO SECOND CHANCE: People with Criminal Records Denied Access to Public Housing
2004 report by Corinne Carey for Human Rights Watch
>> See also Compilations & inventories of collateral consequences <<
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