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Lahny R. Silva, 5 Wisconsin Law Review 4
(January 2015)The article discusses that, as America attempts to remedy the harsh sentencing policies enacted during the “War on Drugs” in the 1980s and 1990s, hundreds of thousands of ex-offenders are being released from jails and prisons annually. Upon release, the author contends, these individuals will confront legal obstacles in their ... -
Vera Institute of Justice
(December 2014)According to this report, from 2009 through 2014, forty-one states and the District of Columbia enacted 155 pieces of legislation to mitigate the burden of collateral consequences for people with certain criminal convictions. In reviewing this legislative activity, the Vera Institute of Justice’s Center on Sentencing and Corrections found that ... -
Center for American Progress
(December 2014)This report discusses that many of the 70 million to 100 million Americans—or as many as one in three— have a criminal record. Many have only minor offenses, such as misdemeanors and non-serious infractions; others have only arrests without conviction. Nonetheless, the authors argue, because of the rise of technology ... -
Kimani Paul-Emile, 100 Virginia Law Review 893
(September 2014)In this article, the author argues that the negative impact of employers’ reliance on criminal records databases falls most heavily on Black and Latino populations, as studies show that the stigma of having a criminal record is significantly more damaging for racial minorities than for whites. This criminal records “penalty,” ... -
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Over-Criminalization Task Force
(June 2014)According to the hearing records, the 8th hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Over-Criminalization Task Force focused on the collateral consequences associated with a criminal conviction. The hearing examined the consequences that follow a criminal conviction which may not be immediately apparent during the pendency of ... -
Amy P. Meek, 75 Ohio State Law Journal 1
(January 2014)According to the article's author, some of the most severe collateral consequences of criminal convictions are imposed through city and county ordinances and policies. This article offers the first (at the time) in-depth examination of these municipal policies, including permits and licensing ordinances, registration and exclusion zones, third-party background-check requirements, and local hiring policies. The author contends that some municipal ordinances, such as residential restrictions on sex offenders, ... -
Wayne A. Logan, 88 Washington Law Review 1103
(October 2013)According to its author, this essay fills an important gap in the national discussion now taking place with regard to collateral consequences, the broad array of non-penal disabilities attaching to criminal convictions. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark 2010 decision in Padilla v. Kentucky, efforts are now underway ... -
The Advocate, Journal of Criminal Justice Education & Research, Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy
(June 2013)According to the articles authors, the impact of a criminal conviction is greater than a number of days in prison or a number of dollars fined. Hundreds of federal, state, and local laws impose additional consequences on people convicted of crimes, many of which remain in effect far beyond any ...