Carceral Chicago: Making the Ex-offender Employability CrisisIllinois prisons function as labor-market institutions, designed - at least in part - to specifically exclude Black men from economic...
A "Labor History" of Mass IncarcerationIn order to fully understand the costs of mass incarceration, research on the labor market effects of the carceral state must be truly...
Therapeutic correctional spaces, transcarceral interventions: post-release support structures and...Evidence-based reentry practices are often ineffective and unhelpful for formerly incarcerated women. This article provides a thorough...
Back to Nothing: Prisoner Reentry and Neoliberal NeglectThe reentry industry, as an extension of the carceral state, is a well-functioning engine of structural and racialized inequity in U.S....
Criminal Record Questions in the Era of “Ban the Box”: Criminal Record QuestionsThere is very little consistency in how questions about criminal records are asked on job applications, or what information is requested....
The Rise of Criminal Background Screening in Rental HousingThe carceral state works with the private sector to carry out the work of social control, extending risk-based logics far beyond prison...
Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems, 2014The Bureau of Justice Statistics provides detailed information on how criminal record checks are conducted in the United States and its...