The city estimates about 168,000 Detroiters are now eligible for expungement, all of whom are subject to the court system’s timeline, which varies from court to court.
Browsing: Prisoner Reentry
A new study concludes that despite criticism of their cost-effectiveness, skill training and counseling programs in state correctional facilities are a “critical tool” in curbing recidivism.
Habakkuk Nickens was recently granted compassionate release from federal prison, where he had been serving a 20-year sentence on a racketeering charge. This is the latest in a series of columns documenting his return home.
For many recently released protesters, just staying in school or holding down a job is a victory and laws ensure their arrest records will trail them for life.
In the first month after release from incarceration, Habakkuk Nickens gets 10 job offers, and a driver’s license, and sees his daughter off to her prom.
A former incarceree describes his emotional reconciliation with family after 10 years behind bars.
Google said its initiative would also pay for new technology to help returning citizens clear criminal records in order to join the job force.
Where other employers look at former prisoners and see only a risk of re-offending, former prison chaplain Kalen McAllister, owner of a nonprofit St. Louis, Mo., bakery, sees multifaceted individuals on the road to a new and productive future.
A Center for an Urban Future study says that entrepreneurship programs for former incarcerees will generate wealth in disadvantaged communities, but policymakers’ support remains low.
We spend more than $80 billion annually on corrections, but just $100 million on employment training for the 600,000 people who are released each year. That gets the priorities exactly backward, write two New York experts on reentry training for ex-incarcerees.