"The Fair Chance Forward initiative focuses on hiring managers and the human resources profession, because they can really be gatekeepers or door openers for people," said Elizabeth Speck, founder of MindOpen Learning Strategies. "Criminal records impact people's ability to obtain employment, and the United States' problem with mass incarceration is highly racialized."
People who identify as Black make up 10.5% of Staten Island's population...yet they accounted for 42% of arrests in 2023, recent data showed.
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