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Joy Radice, 83 University of Colorado Law Review 715
(July 2011)After years of swelling prison populations, this article asserts that the reentry into society of people with criminal convictions has become a central criminal justice issue. Scholars, advocates, judges, and lawmakers have repeatedly emphasized that, even after prison, punishment continues from severe civil penalties that are imposed by federal and ... -
Gabriel J. Chin, 54 Howard Law Journal 675
(June 2011)This essay, part of the 2010 Wiley A. Branton Symposium at Howard Law School, addresses some of the practicalities of making the Supreme Court's decision in Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S. Ct. 1473 (2010) an operational reality. Padilla held that defense counsel have an ethical obligation to advise their clients of the possibility ... -
Margaret Colgate Love, 54 Howard Law Journal 753
(April 2011)This article argues that the relief provisions of the Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act (“UCCCA”) provide just such a mechanism. It begins by telling the story of Darrell Langdon, a Chicago man whose status as a “convicted felon” barred him from a job he had performed well for many ... -
J. McGregor Smyth, 31 St. Louis University Public Law Review 139
(January 2011)This article argues that any discussion of changing defense practices must squarely address why defense attorneys must approach their work in a new way and how they can do it in our high-volume reality. The author asserts that defenders must know that this approach works for clients, works for their ... -
American Bar Association
(June 2004)Collateral consequences of criminal convictions, also called “collateral sanctions,” are legal penalties that take away rights, access to programs or services, or that impose another type of disadvantage that may not be part of a person’s sentence. According to the American Bar Association (ABA), when properly administered, such sanctions can ... -
Shawn D. Bushway and Christopher Uggen, The Brookings Institution
This chapter of the larger A Better Path Forward for Criminal Justice report builds upon growing interest in realigning reentry policy with, as the authors state, more mature theories of desistance, or the study of why and how people stop committing crimes. The authors assert that the time has come ... - The Clean Slate Clearinghouse—a project funded by, and developed in partnership with, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)—helps support juvenile and adult criminal record clearance around the country by: Providing people with criminal records and non-legal service providers with accurate, up-to-date information on record ...
- The Collateral Consequences Resource Center (CCRC) is a non-profit organization established in 2014 to promote public engagement on the myriad issues raised by the legal restrictions and societal stigma that burden people with a criminal record long after their criminal case is closed. Situated at the intersection of the academic ...