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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01mw22v8559| Title: | Americans with criminal records |
| Contributors: | Sentencing Project |
| Keywords: | Ex-convicts—United States Criminals—Rehabilitation—United States Imprisonment—Social aspects—United States Discrimination in criminal justice administration—United States Poverty—United States |
| Issue Date: | Nov-2015 |
| Publisher: | The Sentencing Project |
| Place of Publication: | Washington, D.C. |
| Description: | The United States is the global leader in incarceration. Today, more than 1.5 million Americans are incarcerated in state and federal prisons, a figure that has quintupled since 1980. Adding in jails, the number of Americans who are behind bars rises to 2.2 million. One in three U.S. adults has been arrested by age 23. Communities of color; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals; and people with histories of abuse or mental illness are disproportionately affected. As a result, between 70 million and 100 million—or as many as one in three Americans—have some type of criminal record. Having even a minor criminal record, such as a misdemeanor or even an arrest without conviction, can create an array of lifelong barriers that stand in the way of successful re-entry. This has broad implications for individuals’ and families’ economic security, as well as for our national economy. Mass incarceration and hyper-criminalization serve as major drivers of poverty; having a criminal record can present obstacles to employment, housing, public assistance, education, family reunification, building good credit, and more. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01mw22v8559 |
| Related resource: | https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/ |
| Appears in Collections: | Monographic reports and papers (Publicly Accessible) |
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| Americans-with-Criminal-Records-Poverty-and-Opportunity-Profile.pdf | 1.15 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Download |
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