Resource Guides: Resources for Students Formerly Involved in the Justice System: Home

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This guide is designed to help you navigate your reentry and education processes as you work to achieve your goals. In addition to these resources we have research and study resources on our website and study spaces and computers in our library. And remember, our librarians and staff are always here to help you and you can find us in the library during open hours or reach us through our website.

Books in our Collection

After Life Imprisonment: Reentry in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Publication Date: 2016
Online Library Book
Convicted and Condemned: The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry
Publication Date: 2017
Online Library Book
Criminal History and Employment: Challenges and Opportunities
Publication Date: 2019
Online Library Book
Homeward: Life in the Year after Prison
Call Number: HV9275.W424 2018
Circulating Print Book
The New Jim Crow :Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Publication Date: 2020
Online Library Book
Recovering Identity: Criminalized Women’s Fight for Dignity and Freedom
Publication Date: 2023
Open Access Online Book

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Guidance Resources

The Clean Slate Clearinghouse
"Provides people with criminal records, legal service providers, and state policymakers with information on juvenile and adult criminal record clearance policies in all U.S. states and territories."
Finding Meaningful Work After Prison isn’t Easy. Here’s How These Women Did.
Here are the personal stories of two previously incarcerated women now leading highly successful careers
Myths & Facts
Pioneer Human Services "addresses the most common 'Myths' we hear and give the correct 'Facts' to help individuals navigate their way towards a successful reentry."
National Reentry Resource Center (NRRC)
"The nation’s primary source of information and guidance in reentry"
Reentry MythBusters
"Reentry MythBusters are fact sheets designed to clarify existing federal policies that affect formerly incarcerated individuals and their families in areas such as public housing, employment, parental rights, Medicaid suspension/termination, voting rights and more."
Washington Reentry Guide
The Washington Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest offers "this guide as a tool to help you get back on your feet after a period of incarceration."

John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity

The work of the John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a senior college of The City University of New York.