CJEI Videos

Join us on Thursday, October 26, 2023, at 12pm EDT as Timothy McNutt, director of Cornell ILR’s Criminal Justice and Employment Initiative (CJEI), discusses policies to help integrate job seekers with criminal records into the workforce. 

The Restorative Record project is a technology enabled solution that can help mitigate the collateral consequences of background checks as a screening device for opportunity within the justice impacted community.

Timothy McNutt, Director of ILR’s Criminal Justice and Employment Initiative, moderates the Yang Tan Institute’s Y-ReCONNECTS panel to promote systemic change to improve outcomes for justice-impacted youth with intellectual, developmental, and other disabilities.

A criminal record or criminal history is a list of your contacts with the criminal justice system. Your state will have a state RAP sheet that records all contacts with the state criminal justice system.

It is important that you know your criminal record so that you can accurately answer questions on a job application and discuss your record with an employer. Learn helpful tips to discuss your record with an employer.

If you have a criminal record, there are remedies available to you depending on the state where your criminal record is located. These remedies may range from certificates that indicate your rehabilitation to expunging your record.