The New Scarlet Letter? Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record
The numbers are eye-opening. And for a male child born in 2001, the likelihood of going to prison is 5.9 percent for whites, 17.2 percent for Hispanics, and a whopping 32.2 percent for blacks. This has policymakers focused on ways to facilitate reentry into the labor market for this growing population.