Being convicted of a crime has thousands of consequences besides incarceration – and some last a lifetime
- Written by Cynthia Golembeski, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar; School of Law/School of Public Affairs and Administration J.D./Ph.D. Student, Rutgers University Newark
These women were released from an Oklahoma prison in 2019.
AP Photo/Sue OgrockiAt least 77 million U.S. adults have criminal records, including nearly 7 million currently in prison or jail or on probation or parole.
Typically, more than 10,000 of the incarcerated leave prison and nearly 200,000 churn through jails every week. But because more than 6...