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Back to Business: How Hiring Formerly Incarcerated Job Seekers Benefits Your Company (2017)

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Trone Private Sector and Education Advisory Council (New York, NY).

"The report details the ways companies can combat the ills of decades of mass incarceration, while at the same tapping into the potential energy of a workforce of millions ... The report lays out how by reducing barriers to employment and implementing fair hiring practices, companies can better provide employment opportunities to formerly incarcerated people to the benefit of all.'

Reentry and Barriers to Employment: Lessons From Casey’s Investments (2016)

Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore, MD).

“This report covers the challenging terrains of incarceration, reentry and work. It draws on expert interviews, dozens of resources and two decades of strategic investments by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Readers will learn what employment barriers people commonly face after exiting prison or jail and how to help these individuals pursue - and maintain - family-supporting jobs.”

Correctional Industries: A Guide to Reentry-Focused Performance Excellence (2015)

National Correctional Industries Association (NCIA) (Baltimore, MD) and the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) (Washington, DC).

This guide "is specifically designed to empower each Correctional Industries organization, no matter the size or structure, to design and implement its program with an emphasis on maximizing system impact. The model supports implementing effective strategies through the context of work. The results are focused on increasing an individual’s success after release."

Making the Grade: Developing Quality Postsecondary Education Programs in Prison (2016)

Delaney, Ruth, Ram Subramanian, and Fred Patrick. Vera Institute of Justice. Center on Sentencing and Corrections (New York, NY).

"To support the implementation of new partnerships and strengthen existing ones, this report compiles lessons from the field, offering implementation guidance to programs seeking to develop, expand, or enhance postsecondary educational programming in corrections settings" (p. 6).

Reentry Education Model Implementation Study Promoting Reentry Success Through Continuity of Educational Opportunities (2015)

Erismnan, Wendy. RTI International (Washington, DC)

This report uses observations from the first full year of the Promoting Reentry Success Through Continuity of Educational Opportunities (PRSCEO) demonstration projects to tell the story of each site’s implementation of the Reentry Education Model and to look across the three sites to identify the model’s strengths and limitations.

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