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Monica L. Reid, National Association for Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
(August 2018)Presented as part of the National Association for Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)'s 17th Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference, "Shattering the Shackles of Collateral Consequences: Exploring Moral Principles and Economic Innovations to Restore Rights and Opportunity" this panel focuses on several states that have addressed progressive solutions to alleviating collateral consequences through ... -
National Reentry Resource Center, Clean Slate Clearinghouse
(August 2018)The presenters of this webinar discuss overcoming the challenges to effective community engagement and explore ways to increase the number of juvenile record clearances. -
Lucius Couloute, Prison Policy Initiative
(August 2018)Building a successful life without a place to call home is hard to imagine, but this basic necessity is often out of reach for formerly incarcerated people according to the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI). Barriers to employment, combined with explicit discrimination, have created a little-discussed housing crisis. This PPI report provides ... -
Benjamin Levin, 39 Cardozo Law Review 6
(August 2018)This article diagnoses a phenomenon, “criminal employment law,” which exists at the nexus of employment law and the criminal justice system. According to the author, courts and legislatures discourage employers from hiring workers with criminal records and encourage employers to discipline workers for non-work-related criminal misconduct. In analyzing this phenomenon, ... -
Nila Bala, Former Associate Director, Criminal Justice & Civil Liberties; Resident Senior Fellow, R Street
(July 2018)According to this report from R Street, any criminal record—even an arrest that never led to a conviction—can stand in the way of employment. While there are many efforts to alleviate some of the barriers to opportunity that come with a criminal record, many fall short because of psychological biases. This ... -
Joshua Gaines and Margaret Colgate Love, Federal Sentencing Reporter
(July 2018)This paper describes the results of an investigation into the operation of Indiana’s recently enacted expungement law from a variety of perspectives: a prosecutor from a populous urban county (Marion County, including Indianapolis), criminal defense attorneys, court personnel, and legal service providers across the state. Indiana’s expungement law, first enacted ... -
Gabriel J. Chin & John Ormonde, 102 Minnesota Law Review
(July 2018)Part I of this article explains that serious consequences may fall on people convicted of federal misdemeanors.These include deportation, sex offender or other criminal registration, loss of civil rights, and penalties flowing from the permanent change of legal status caused by criminal conviction. Misdemeanor convictions and criminal records may also ... -
Lucius Couloute and Daniel Kopf, Prison Policy Initiative
(July 2018)According to the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), people who were formerly incarcerated need stable jobs for the same reasons as everyone else: to support themselves and their loved ones, pursue life goals, and strengthen their communities. But how many formerly incarcerated people are able to find work? Answering this fundamental question, ...