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These Startups Think Jobs Not Sentences Help Keep Ex-Offenders Out of Jail

10.06.17

By Alice Rowsome
How These Pro Bono Lawyers Are Fighting Louisiana’s Broken Court System

08.24.17

By Madeline Moitozo
This New Jobs Platform Matches Ex-Offenders With Employers

08.21.17

By Kimberly Lawson
Pennsylvania Crime Initiative Works by Helping Former Inmates Get Jobs

07.18.17

By Kastalia Medrano
Music

How Music Is Keeping People from Going Back to Prison

02.07.17

By Andrea Domanick
Pulse

The hidden cost of repealing Obamacare: More people going back to jail

01.06.17

By Keegan Hamilton
Entertainment

We’re Launching an Apprentice Program for Formerly Incarcerated People

12.08.16

By VICE Staff
Why the Friendships You Make in Prison Should Stay Behind Bars

11.19.16

By Seth Ferranti
Pulse

At least four freed Gitmo detainees have returned to terrorism this year, US says

09.15.16

By Jason Leopold
Could Prison Mentors Reduce Australia’s Sky High Recidivism Rates?

08.24.16

By Vincent Dwyer
Ex-Cons Remember Their Worst Jobs After Being Released from Prison

08.21.16

By Seth Ferranti
How Wall Street Dehumanized Teenage Inmates with Scientology-Infused Therapy

08.04.16

By Maia Szalavitz

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