Planned cuts to the budget for the New York Department of Corrections may shutter crucial reentry programs offered by community-run organizations.
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For Second Chance Month, the Center for Employment Opportunities and Computing Technology Industry Association highlight their partnership aimed at closing the skill gap through reentry training and placement of formerly incarcerated people.
Recent Council on Criminal Justice research suggests that reducing sentences of 10 years or longer by modest margins could significantly reduce prison populations without damaging public safety.
A state lawmaker is calling for an investigation into Texas’ Board of Pardons and Parole for releasing Nestor Oswaldo Hernandez on an ankle monitor after he served five years of an eight- year sentence.
Hiring people with criminal records can help businesses cope with the ongoing labor shortage in a state where roughly 450,000 Arizonans have felony convictions and 100,00 have done time, says Arouet, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding jobs for people with criminal records..
A number of formerly incarcerated people in Florida could land back behind bars for mistakenly believing they were eligible to vote because of a 2018 ballot initiative that restored voting rights to most Floridians with past convictions.
The Alliance for Safety and Justice, a national criminal justice reform non-profit, has launched a new program called TimeDone Pennsylvania which seeks to help people in that state clear their records by providing connections to legal resources and employers for people with criminal records.
Nearly 40 percent of employers in a recent survey said they were willing to hire individuals with a criminal record, but the number rose to over 50 percent with a guarantee of “safety insurance,” according to a Quarterly Journal of Economics study.
Two state programs designed to get more former inmate firefighters hired professionally have barely made a dent.
The program started by Royal Ramey and Brandon Smith has helped dozens of people find a career after prison. Now they want to expand the effort across California.