Legal Financial Obligations of Reentering People After Release From Prison: Exploring Predictors of Criminal Justice Debts

Legal financial obligations (LFOs) can complicate the already daunting process of reentry for people that are released from prison. The current study uses data to describe and model how LFOs accrued over criminal careers vary across all people released from state prisons in New Jersey in 2009 and 20...

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