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April 19, 2022 | Report/Brief | Darrel Thompson

No More Double Punishments: Lifting the Ban on SNAP and TANF for People with Prior Felony Drug Convictions

In many states, people with drug-related felony convictions are banned from SNAP and TANF. This impedes successful reentry.

July 23, 2021 | Report/Brief | Duy Pham

Subsidized Jobs: Youth and adults impacted by the criminal legal system

The public health and economic crises of the past year have exacerbated existing economic inequities. The pandemic has devastated Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color; workers in jobs paying low wages; youth and young adults; women and women of color; and people impacted by…

April 12, 2021 | Report/Brief | Whitney Bunts

Youth Mobile Response Services: An Investment to Decriminalize Mental Health

In this report for federal, state, and local government entities, we offer examples of states that have created good mental health mobile response systems

December 1, 2020 | Report/Brief | Duy Pham

Divest from Policing and Mass Incarceration, Invest in Communities and Families of Color

The Biden-Harris Administration must undertake criminal justice reform with an obligation to divest from systems of oppression and invest in the healing of historically oppressed communities.

May 6, 2020 | Report/Brief | Duy Pham

Reconnecting, Realizing and Reimagining Justice: Advancing Economic Justice for Individuals and Communities Impacted by the Criminal Justice System

New report, Reconnecting, Realizing and Reimagining Justice, written by Duy Pham, Kisha Bird and Shae Harris

February 6, 2020 | Report/Brief | Kisha Bird

From Surviving to Thriving: Supporting Transformation, Reentry and Connections to Employment for Young Adults

This report offers practical programmatic solutions that support second chances for young people and raise policy and systems considerations to address equity, collateral consequences, and opportunity. 

October 9, 2018 | Report/Brief | Kisha Bird

Unjustice: Overcoming Trump’s Rollbacks on Youth Justice

This brief shows how Trump's justice department has turned back progress for youth and young adults of color. It also provides an anti-incarceration framework to combat law-and-order policies.

May 21, 2018 | Report/Brief | Duy Pham

Incarceration to Reentry: Education & Training Pathways in Ohio

This brief explains how Ohio is aligning education and training opportunities for people who are currently or formerly incarcerated. 

May 9, 2018 | Report/Brief | Alan W. Houseman

Securing Equal Justice for All: A Brief History of Civil Legal Assistance in the United States

This report provides a brief history of civil legal assistance for low-income people in the United States.

February 13, 2018 | Report/Brief | Nia West-Bey

Maternal Depression and Young Adult Mental Health

Three million Americans living in poverty are either a mother who has experienced depression or a young adult who has experienced serious psychological distress. Untreated mental health needs have significant consequences for mothers and young adults as well as their families.

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