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  • You've Served Your Time. Now You're Told You Can't Cut Hair.

    Ashley Nerbovig

    July 10, 2018 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    A number of states have passed reforms aimed at helping people coming out of incarceration get licenses that are key to well-paying jobs, which in turn help people stay out of prison. But there are still numerous hurdles in other states around criminal histories and background checks that keep people with felony records from entering those professions. Those requirements have cost the economy nearly three million jobs according to one report, and disproportionately affect people of color.

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