Plans for current and former inmates include education and housing efforts and a push to remove criminal-background questions from job applicationsBarack Obama will announce a series of executive actions to back current and former prisoners re-enter society on Monday,as the president continues his campaign to wind down the war on drugs and reform a “broken” system.
Obama’s plans include millions of dollars in education grants for current prisoners, new policies to back former inmates find housing, and a “clean slate clearing house” to back former prisoners clear their records where possible,and a call to Congress to “ban the box” – the space on a job application that asks approximately criminal backgrounds.
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Source: theguardian.com