To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Each year, more than 200,000 men and women are released ...

When Maryland legislators discussed the Fair Chance Housing Act (H.B. 1077/S.B. 514) in 2025, they were not just looking at landlord screening criteria; at the center of the discussion was the value ...

A rally for the Fair Chance Act (photo: Andrew Bowe, National Employment Law Project) For almost two million New Yorkers, the Fair Chance Act, a city law passed one year ago, represents opportunity.

On October 8, 2025, the Mayor of Philadelphia signed into law amendments (“Amendments”) to the city’s Fair Criminal Record ...

There are a lot of people from Blair County regularly entering prison — and a lot regularly coming out — and employers have an important role to play in promoting the well-being of those coming out, ...

Fresh out of prison in 2023, James returned to Denton on parole and in need of a job to pay his fines to the court on top of his rent and other bills just to stay out of prison. He got in trouble for ...

If you’re like me, chances are you began to learn the concept that people deserve a second chance during elementary school. When I was a pre-teen, the idea of forgiveness was easy to grasp, even if ...

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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Or, in our case, the man ahead of you at the finish line. That’s what girls all over the country are being told when they participate in sports, whether ...