Chicago's Title VII Working Group


 

Publication Date: July 2007

Publisher: Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law; Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy

Author(s): Margaret Stapleton

Research Area: Labor; Social conditions

Keywords: Criminal Records; Employment; Prisoner Reentry

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Chicago's Title VII Working Group, an eclectic group of lawyers, reentry providers, community groups, and others, meets regularly to find ways for lawyers and paralegals to help people with criminal records successfully reenter society. Margaret Stapleton, senior attorney at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, initiated the group.