Finding work on the outside: Results from the "returning home" project in Chicago

Barriers to Reentry?: The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in Post-Industrial America

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 80-113

  Visher, Christy A ^a   Kachnowski, Vera ^b  

^a URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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