Past Resources of the Week
2015 General News
December
The Expunged Record
- By: The Expunged Record
- 12/28/2015
- more info
November
Education Suspended: The Use of High School Disciplinary Records in College Admissions (CCA)
- By: CCA
- 11/04/2015
- more info
October
Connections 2015: a Guide for Formerly Incarcerated People in New York City (NYPL)
- By: New York Public Library
- 10/06/2015
- more info
September
ROTW: Promoting Access to Stable, Permanent Housing for All New Yorkers (CSH)
- By: CSH
- 09/15/2015
- more info
ROTW: Statement on the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the U.S. (Center for HIV Law and Policy)
- By: Center for HIV Law and Policy
- 09/09/2015
- more info
ROTW: Comprehensive Resources on Fair Chance Hiring (National Employment Law Center)
- By: National Employment Law Center
- 09/01/2015
- more info
August
ROTW; The High Cost of Low Risk: The Crisis of America's Aging Prison Population
- By: The Osborne Association
- 08/17/2015
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ROTW: Strengthening New York City's Public Housing: Direction's for Change
- By: Community Service Society
- 08/10/2015
- more info
July
ROTW: How to Legally Change Your Name in New York City (Sylvia Rivera Law Project, 2015)
- By: The Sylvia Rivera Law Project
- 07/14/2015
- more info
ROTW: Turning on the Tap: How Returning Access to Tuition Assistance for Incarcerated People Improves the Health of New Yorkers
- By: Education from the Inside Out Coalition
- 07/02/2015
- more info
June
ROTW: Solitary Confinement: New Report Highlights Misconceptions and Alternatives
- By: VERA Institute of Justice
- 06/22/2015
- more info
ROTW: Solitary Confinement: New Report Highlights Misconceptions and Alternatives
- By: Vera Institute of Justice
- 06/15/2015
- more info
ROTW: Callous and Cruel: Use of Force against Incarcerated Individuals with Mental Disabilities in US Jails and Prisons
- By: Human Rights Watch
- 06/01/2015
- more info
May
ROTW: Boxed Out: Criminal History Screening and College Application Attrition
- By: Center for Community Alternatives
- 05/26/2015
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ROTW: Opening Pandora’s Box: How Does Defendant Race Influence Plea Bargaining?
- By: Justice Quarterly
- 05/11/2015
- more info
ROTW: Cumulative Disadvantage: Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Prosecution and Sentencing
- By: Vera Institute of Justice
- 05/04/2015
- more info
April
ROTW: Consequences of Criminal Proceedings in New York State (April 2015)
- By: The Bronx Defenders
- 04/27/2015
- more info
ROTW: U.S. Prison Population Trends
- By: The Sentencing Project
- 04/20/2015
- more info
ROTW: Advancing a Federal Fair Chance Hiring Agenda: Background Check Reforms in Over 100 Cities, Counties, & States Pave the Way for Presidential Action
- By: National Employment Law Project
- 04/08/2015
- more info
March
Black Girls Matter: Pushed out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected
- By: Columbia University Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies
- 03/30/2015
- more info
ROTW- Boxed Out: Criminal History Screening and College Application Attrition
- By: Center for Community Alternatives
- 03/23/2015
- more info
ROTW: Reproductive Injustice: The State of Reproductive Health Care for Women in New York State Prisons
- By: Women in Prison Project
- 03/16/2015
- more info
ROTW: The State of Sentencing 2014
- By: The Sentencing Project
- 03/09/2015
- more info
ROTW: Incarceration's Front Door: The Misuse of Jails in America
- By: Vera Institute of Justice
- 03/02/2015
- more info
February
ROTW: Black Lives Matter: Eliminating Racial Iniquity in the Criminal Justice System
- By: The Sentencing Project
- 02/23/2015
- more info
ROTW: The Edge of Stigma: An Experimental Audit of the Effects of Low-Level Criminal Records on Employment
- By: University of Minnesota; Purdue University
- 02/17/2015
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ROTW: When All Else Fails, Fining the Family: First Person Accounts of Criminal Justice Debt
- By: Center for Community Alternatives
- 02/09/2015
- more info
ROTW:Reefer Madness: The Unfair Consequences of Marijuana Arrests in NY State
- By: New York Civil Liberties Union
- 02/02/2015
- more info
January
ROTW: Where Do We Go from Here? Mass Incarceration and the Struggle for Civil Rights
- By: Economic Policy Institute
- 01/26/2015
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ROTW: Ban the Box: Major U.S. Cities and Counties Adopt Fair Hiring Policies to Remove Unfair Barriers to Employment of People with Criminal Records (Updated 2015)
- By: National Employment Law Project
- 01/20/2015
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ROTW: Relief in Sight? States Rethink the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction, 2009-2014
- By: The Vera Institute
- 01/05/2015
- more info