Collateral consequences
- Homelessness, mental illness, substance use disorders, and criminalization are deeply connected problems that housing can help with (Created: 2023)
- Formerly incarcerated people typically earn well below the income requirements for public housing assistance (Created: 2023)
- Formerly incarcerated people earn far less than the general population (Created: 2022)
- Formerly incarcerated people face alarming rates of joblessness (Created: 2022)
- Lesbian and bisexual women are overrepresented on probation and parole (Created: 2021)
- Formerly incarcerated people are twice as likely to experience food insecurity (Created: 2021)
- Most people with a history of incarceration and homelessness were homeless before going to prison (Created: 2021)
- Black people in Connecticut are disproportionately impacted by homelessness and incarceration (Created: 2021)
- Formerly incarcerated people have very high rates of homelessness, especially women and people of color (Created: 2020)
- Homelessness is part of the larger problem of housing insecurity (Created: 2018)
- Housing insecurity is nearly three times more common than homelessness alone (Created: 2018)
- Gender, race, and ethnicity combine to put women of color at greater risk of homelessness (Created: 2018)
- The revolving door of prison contributes to homelessness (Created: 2018)
- Homelessness rates among formerly incarcerated people (Created: 2018)
- Race and gender disparities in unemployment and job type among formerly incarcerated people active in the labor market (Created: 2018)
- When they can find work, formerly incarcerated women of color are often relegated to part-time jobs (Created: 2018)
- The "prison penalty" in unemployment disproportionately punishes formerly incarcerated Black men and women (Created: 2018)
- For formerly incarcerated people looking for jobs, it's worse than the Great Depression (Created: 2018)
- Millions of children have fathers behind bars (Created: 2017)
