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Margaret Love and Rob Poggenklass, Collateral Consequences Resource Center
(January 2023)In 2022, 33 states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government enacted 71 separate pieces of legislation, passed two ballot initiatives, and took unprecedented executive actions to restore rights and opportunities to people with an arrest or conviction history. This report from the Collateral Consequences Resource Center (CCRC) highlights key ... -
Christopher Uggen, Ryan Larson, Sarah Shannon, and Robert Stewart, Sentencing Project
(October 2022)According to this report from The Sentencing Project, laws in 48 states ban people with felony convictions from voting. In 2022, an estimated 4.6 million Americans, representing 2 percent of the voting-age population, will be ineligible to vote due to these laws or policies, many of which date back to ... -
Margaret Colgate Love, Collateral Consequences Resource Center
(March 2022)This report from the Collateral Consequences Resource Center sets out to describe the landscape of laws in the United States intended to restore rights and opportunities after an arrest or conviction, as of February 2022. This report considers remedies for three main types of collateral consequences: loss of civil rights, limits ... -
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
(January 2022)From arrest to incarceration and reentry, people who come into contact with the justice system are confronted with numerous financial challenges, including financial products and services that too often contain exploitative terms and features, offer little or no consumer choice, and can have long-term negative consequences for the individuals and ... -
Collateral Consequences Resource Center
(January 2022)According to this report from the Collateral Consequences Resource Center, In the past year the bipartisan commitment to a reintegration agenda has seemed more than ever grounded in economic imperatives, as pandemic dislocations have brought home the need to support, train, and recruit workers who are essential to rebuilding the ... -
Nidhi Kalra, Brian G. Vegetabile, Shawn D. Bushway, and Greg Baumann, RAND Corporation
(January 2022)In this paper from RAND, the authors argue that the recidivism statistics cited most often in debates about the collateral consequences of criminal conviction are not appropriate to answer the questions inherent in those debates. In particular, the behaviors of criminal justice cohorts are too often mistakenly used to describe, or ... -
E. Ann Carson, Danielle Sandler, Renuka Bhaskar, Leticia Fernandez, and Sonya Porter, Bureau of Justice Statistics
(December 2021)This report from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) fulfills a congressional mandate in the Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act, part of the 2019 Defense Reauthorization Act (P.L. 116–92, Title XI, Subtitle B, Section 1124). Congress tasked BJS and the ... -
Claire K. Child & Stephanie A. Clark, Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law
(December 2021)This article addresses the history and evolution of SNAP and the federal ban on access for individuals with drug-related felony convictions. Part I introduces the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and discusses its history and intent. Part II examines the origins of the felony drug disqualification from SNAP, including its legislative ...