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Increasing Employment Opportunities for Pennsylvanians with Criminal Histories

Press Hits

Montco Settles Lawsuit On Hiring Applicants With Criminal Records — Montgomeryville Patch, December 5, 2019

Employers: Applicants With Criminal Histories Deserve a Fair Chance — Legal Intelligencer, July 19, 2019

4 lawsuits that could change the face of justice in Philadelphia — Philadelphia Inquirer, July 18, 2019

Philly public defender suit seeks to blow up ‘unlawful’ probation detainers — Philadelphia Inquirer, July 11, 2019

Philadelphia can’t afford the price of hiring bias — Philadelphia Inquirer, May 25, 2019

The Collateral Consequences of Acquittal: Employment Discrimination on the Basis of Arrests Without Convictions — University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, June 16, 2017

Finding a Job After Serving Time – New York Times, November 2, 2014

Is your arrest record keeping you from getting a job? – Legal Intelligencer, May 23, 2014

Recent Employment Posts

  • We urge protections against imprisonment solely for the inability to pay fines in new comments on PA criminal procedure rules
  • Patterson v. Commonwealth
  • Our comment on new proposed SBA rules for veterans with criminal histories
  • Taking on Unlawful Restrictions on COVID-19 Emergency Relief for Business Owners with Criminal Records
  • Data remains unreliable in OVR reports from the first two quarters of 2019-2020
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