States with more and harsher collateral consequences are more likely to negatively impact employment outcomes for people with criminal...

Prisons generate and perpetuate social inequalities in various forms, including employment discrimination, health and education...

Historians have not adequately assessed and analyzed the impact of post 1960 mass incarceration. Divided into three parts, the author...

In eastern Kentucky, prisons (like coal) serve as responses to the cycles and problems of capitalism, including deindustrialization,...

The carceral state is a highly functioning labor market institution that both excludes people from the labor market and extracts labor....

The day-labor industry perpetuates socioeconomic inequities through its regulation of formerly incarcerated people, while positioning...

The use of Legal Financial Obligations (i.e., court fines and supervision fees to child support payments), further impedes the upward...

Illinois prisons function as labor-market institutions, designed - at least in part - to specifically exclude Black men from economic...

In order to fully understand the costs of mass incarceration, research on the labor market effects of the carceral state must be truly...

Evidence-based reentry practices are often ineffective and unhelpful for formerly incarcerated women. This article provides a thorough...

The reentry industry, as an extension of the carceral state, is a well-functioning engine of structural and racialized inequity in U.S....

There is very little consistency in how questions about criminal records are asked on job applications, or what information is requested....

The carceral state works with the private sector to carry out the work of social control, extending risk-based logics far beyond prison...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics provides detailed information on how criminal record checks are conducted in the United States and its...

This fascinating (though outdated) report from the National Task Force on the Commercial Sale of Criminal Justice Information examines...

To what extent do mandatory checks required by government lead to an overall increase in background checks performed by employers? This study finds that this kind of "bleed" doesn't really happen, but that employers do request "higher levels of disclosure" than is required by law (i.e. the legislation requires checking for sex-related offenses and instead they check for all crimes). The study also attributes the growth in nonmandatory background checks to the increase in empl

More robust and clear guidelines and policies are needed to eliminate discrimination against people with criminal records in housing....

Because errors in background checks are common and have life-changing consequences, federal and state elected officials should do more...

Employers are continuing to increase their surveillance of potential and current employees. This article on the Society for Human...

There is a strong need for oversight and regulation of data compiled and disseminated by the myriad criminal legal systems in the U.S....