The Data on Second Chances: Job holding reduces recidivism by ~36%.

The stats are clear, but the implementation is broken.

• Without a job: 52% recidivism rate.
• With a job: 16% recidivism rate.
• The Barrier: A record reduces job offers by 50%.

We are losing $372B annually in wages because of this bottleneck. Expeal was engineered to automate the expungement process, removing the barrier with a success rate that manual filing often struggles to match due to complexity.

We've put together more to show the breakdown of the economic impact.