A panel discussion that illuminates the stark dichotomy of the labor market to exclude and extract employment opportunities from the justice-involved with attended adverse socioeconomic effects. Whereas more than 3,000 people return to the City of Boston annually from the carceral system, and are subject to more than 44,000 collateral consequences, the panelists underscore current efforts, both local and national, to harness private-public resources and effectuate change on systems and policies for second chances.