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‘Ban the Box’ Movement Scores Win in America’s Most Incarcerated State (2017)
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards approved legislation that will, beginning Aug. 1, 2017, prohibit the state’s public universities from asking applicants about their criminal backgrounds.