Reports
- Are Firms That Discriminate More Likely to Go Out of Business?, Sociological Science
- Best Practice Standards: The Proper Use of Criminal Records in Hiring, National Hire Network, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, National Workrights Institute
- Closing the Skills Gap & Opening More Doors, National Hire Network
- Criminal Background Checks: Impact on Employment and Recidivism, Urban Institute
- Engaging Employers: A Sector-Based Approach to Employment for People with Criminal Records, National ReEntry Resource Center and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance
- From the Classroom to the Community, The Urban Institute and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- Getting Talent Back to Work (2021 report), SHRM
- How Effective is Correctional Education, and Where Do We Go from Here?, RAND Corporation
- Linking People with Criminal Records to Employment in the Health Care Sector, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
- Mentoring as a Component of ReEntry, The National ReEntry Resource Center
- NYC's Jail Population: Who's There and Why?, New York City Independent Budget Office
- Out of Prison & Out of Work: Unemployment Among Formerly Incarcerated People, PPI
- Prison to Proprietor: Entrepreneurship as a Reentry Strategy, Aspen Institute
- Starting Up & Staying Out, Center for an Urban Future (CUF)
- The Impact of College in a Maximum-security Prison, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Women in Prison at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
Articles
The Business Case for Hiring Someone with a Criminal Record
- If You Paid Your Debt to Society, You Should Be Allowed to Work, New York Times, 2021
- Got A Criminal Record? Will Hire: Businesses Pledge to Give Formerly Incarcerated a Chance, USA Today, 2019
- Can Businesses Help Fix the Incarceration Crisis?, Ideas & Insights, 2018
- Why Hiring People Out of Prison Will Be Your Next Workforce Strategy, Inc., 2018
- His Best Employee is an Inmate from a Prison He Didn’t Want Built, The Washington Post, 2018
- The Cost Of Jobs, WBEZ Chicago, 2017
- Why the Ford Foundation Launched a Program for Formerly Incarcerated People—and How We Did It, The Ford Foundation, 2017
- Matching Ex-Offenders With Hard-To-Fill Health Care Jobs, The Pew Charitable Trust, 2017
- Should You Hire Someone with a Criminal Record?, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, 2017
- Should You Hire An Ex-Con?, Forbes, 2016
- Midwestern States Share Innovative Strategies for Hiring People with Criminal Records, The Council of State Governments Justice Center, 2015
- ‘Orange is New Black’ Author Encourages Felon Hiring, The Detroit News, 2015
- Criminals Make Better Call Center Workers and Other Analytics Surprises, The Wall Street Journal, 2013
Language Use
- The Language Letter Campaign, The Nu Center for Leadership, 2016
- We Are People: Resources for Humanizing Language, The Osborne Association, 2015
The Importance of Education
- How One Man Went From a Life Prison Sentence to a $100K+ Engineering Job, The Hustle, 2019
- Educating Prisoners Gives Them—and Their Communities—a Shot at a Better Future, The Baltimore Sun, 2017
- A College Education for Prisoners, The New York Times, 2016
The Case for Open Hiring
- No Background Check, Drug Test, or Credit Check. You’re Hired!, The New York Times, 2019
- Bakers on a Mission, Greyston Bakery, 2017
- Center for Open Hiring at Greyston, Greyston Bakery, 2017
- Greyston Community Programs, Greyston Bakery, 2017
Employment’s Impact on Identity
- The ‘Surreal’ Moment After Release From Prison, The New York Times, 2020
- Seeing More than Orange: Organizational Respect and Positive Identity Transformation in a Prison Context, Sage Journals, 2016
Incarceration’s Impact on Women and Families
- In Washington, New Hope for Fixing America’s Female Incarceration Problem, Vogue, 2017
- The Hidden Bearers of Mass Incarceration: Women, The Brennan Center for Justice, 2017
Employment Barriers Created by Licenses
- Do Occupational Licenses Exacerbate the Prison-to-Poverty Pipeline?, The Regulatory Review, 2017
- To Help Ex-Offenders Get Jobs, Some States Reconsider Licenses, The Pew Charitable Trust, 2017