The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/corrections/prisoner-reentry/)
The Housing Authority of New Orleans shortened the length of an applicant’s past that would be subject to a criminal background check and created a process for interviewing applicants on a case-by-case basis. Only one applicant has been denied in three years.
More than 10,000 regulations restrict people with criminal records from obtaining occupational licenses, says an American Bar Association database. The restrictions are defended as a way to protect the public. Critics say rules often are arbitrary and ambiguous.
Two Illinois groups offer more than a dozen policy proposals focused on housing that they argue can help reduce recidivism while saving the state more than $100 million annually,
Next week is the deadline for the Justice Department to settle on key details of federal inmate release under the new law. A prison in Colorado is a showcase for rehabilitation programs.
At job fairs for 5,000 positions being offered by Fiat Chrysler ahead of a plant expansion, Detroit residents are getting assistance through Project Clean Slate to clear their records of old criminal offenses.
Soon after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill setting conditions on a voter-approved constitutional amendment that restored voting rights to an estimated 1.4 million people with felony convictions, three groups joined in a lawsuit challenging the measure.
A program launched by Convergence, a Washington DC nonprofit, proposes working with incarcerated individuals before they leave prison to provide the skills and counseling they need to become productive citizens in society.
Two researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Law School argue that the criminal justice system should publicly acknowledge and celebrate cases where those who have been convicted of a crime show remorse and atone for their behavior.
Three organizations team up to provide free legal help for sick and elderly federal prisoners seeking release under the new First Step Act.
The White House is trying to help 2,200 prisoners line up work and housing before they are released next month under the First Step Act. Their terms are being reduced under a provision effective next month that increases the amount of credit prisoners may get for good conduct in custody.