1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Beyond the Box for Higher Education Act of 2018 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) An estimated 70,000,000 Americans have some type of arrest or conviction record that would appear in a criminal background check. (2) Each year, more than 600,000 people return to society from State or Federal prison. (3) Nearly 11,000,000 Americans are admitted to city and county jails each year, with an average daily population of more than 700,000 people. (4) An estimated 2,100,000 youth under the age of 18 are arrested every year in the United States. (5) 1,700,000 juvenile delinquency cases are disposed of in juvenile courts annually. (6) Juvenile records are not always confidential