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Ex Convicts

The Employment of Ex-Offenders is Important to Everyone

Project Return | Posted 03.25.2013 | Impact
Project Return

2012-11-13-jrlogo300x60.gif If you've never been to prison, it's easy to be suspicious and dismissive of those who have. But people are getting out of prison and returning to our community all the time. Their return is inevitable; it's not whether people return from prison, but how they return -- successfully or unsuccessfully.

Small Businesses Put Ex-Cons To Work

Reuters | Geoff Williams | Posted 01.05.2013 | Small Business

(Reuters)- Ten years ago, Debbie Jakacki, owner of Jakacki Bag & Barrel in Chicago, a family business that's been around since 1942, found herself con...

What's Our Goal, Anyway?

Jess Coleman | Posted 09.19.2012 | Teen
Jess Coleman

One cannot help but ask when looking at our criminal justice system: What exactly is our goal, anyway? Is it to deter crime? Is it to rehabilitate?

Trymaine Lee

Updated EEOC Policy Forces Employers To Give Fair Shot To Ex-Offenders

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 04.27.2012 | Black Voices

Kenneth Wilson has been looking for a job for more than two and a half years. But every single job interview that he's had seems to start and end the ...

Recession Could Trigger Flood Of Ex-Convicts Re-Entering Society

TIME | KEN STIER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

In 2000, when Glenn Martin was leaving prison in upstate Attica, N.Y., after serving six years for robbery, the correctional officer thanked him in a ...