The United States accounts for 5 percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of the world’s inmates. More than 2.2 million people are incarcerated in America. More than 11 million people have spent time in American jails. More than 600,000 people are released each year from federal and state jails. President Barack Obama’s administration continues to make efforts to reform America’s criminal justice system by reducing barriers facing people re-entering society from incarceration.
At the end of November, the White House hosted a conference to discuss the progress made in this area over the past eight years and the opportunities that remain to remedy these problems. Simultaneously, the White House announced new signatories to the Fair Chance Business Pledge, the Final Office of Personnel Management “Ban the Box” Rule, Federal Bureau of Prison Reforms and the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable report.
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