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.

Censuses of prisons and detention facilities from the Department of Justice were used to assess the coverage of those facilities in the 2020 Census.

We study the impact of criminal court fees on labor market outcomes, recidivism, and other measures of well-being.

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