Second Chance Month 2023 Resources

Second Chance Month
April 2023

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Collateral Consequences
People who were formerly incarcerated face a web of laws that Marlon Chamberlain describes as "permanent punishments." Marlon is an advocate for peo...
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Collateral Consequences
Beyond the nearly 2 million people in the U.S. who are incarcerated, tens of millions more (1 in 3 Americans) are dealing with the collateral conseque...
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Collateral Consequences
Youth & Young Adults
The Gault Center, which is dedicated to promoting justice for all children and youth by ensuring excellence in youth legal defense, houses a resource ...
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Collateral Consequences
This video showcases two clearinghouses of criminal records information supported by the National Reentry Resource Center.
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Collateral Consequences
As outlined by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), it has been common practice in the United States to make people convicted of a fe...
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Collateral Consequences
This report from the Collateral Consequences Resource Center (CCRC) explores key developments in reintegration reforms during 2022. The body of the re...
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Collateral Consequences
This article from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) offers a broader discussion, derived from an NIJ-hosted webinar, of the difficulty of clea...
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Collateral Consequences
According to this report from The Sentencing Project, laws in 48 states ban people with felony convictions from voting. The report shows that, in 2022...
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Collateral Consequences
This guide from the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division is designed to help people with criminal convictions unders...
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Collateral Consequences
This brief from The Sentencing Project details that, in 2020, 5.2 million Americans were prohibited from voting due to laws that disenfranchise citize...