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Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS)

CJARS is data infrastructure for the next generation of statistics and research on the criminal justice system and population that interacts with it. Read More.

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Justice Outcomes Explorer (JOE)

May 01, 2024

Justice Outcomes Explorer (JOE) data measure the economic and health outcomes of people who have been involved with the criminal justice system.

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Dim Job Outlook for People Released From Prison During Great Recession

February 15, 2022

People convicted of a felony or released from prison are less likely to find work than adults without high school degrees or similar criminal histories.

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Coverage of Prisons and Detention Facilities in the 2020 Census

Censuses of prisons and detention facilities from the Department of Justice were used to assess the coverage of those facilities in the 2020 Census.
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Justice-involved Individuals in the Labor Market since the Great Recession

This paper examines how individuals convicted of a felony or released from prison have fared in the labor market since the Great Recession.
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Criminal Disqualifications in the Paycheck Protection Program

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress created the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to support small businesses.