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Opinion: Clean the Slate for Nonviolent Offenders

By Stephen A. Zappala Jr., Allegheny County District Attorney For the past 20 years, my office has prosecuted hundreds of thousands of criminal cas...

State Program Gives Inmates Their Voice Back

Albuquerque Journal By Matthew Reisen With only months remaining on a 10-year sentence for drug trafficking, 38-year-old Justin Mack says he wan...

Opinion: Tightening Access to Criminal Records

BusinessWest.com By Brad McDougall The Massachusetts Legislature recently passed a criminal-justice reform bill that narrows the ability of empl...

Medicaid’s New Prisoner Population

FoxBusiness.com By Kate Rogers Under the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid, 25 states and the District of Columbia have broaden their ...

California Enacts Modest Occupational Licensing Reform

Collateral Consequences Resource Center By David Schlussel On September 30, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB 2...

End "Stovepipe Approach" to Public Safety, State Officials Told

The Crime Report By Ted Gest To many Americans, “criminal justice reform” means addressing two prominent challenges: reining in abusive police o...

Minor Crimes Get ‘Clean Slate’ in Utah

County News By Rachel Looker Citizens who committed low-level crimes in the state of Utah are getting a second chance to have a “clean slate” th...

Reentry Week Programs for Formerly Incarcerated

New Haven Register By Clare Dignan About 100 people come out of prison to return home to the city every month. This week begins an awareness cam...

Got a Criminal Record? It’s Getting Easier, Less Expensive to Expunge It

Stateline By Rebecca Beitsch In analyzing criminal cases in Baltimore last year, Maryland lawyer and software programmer Matthew Stubenberg foun...

The Victims Who Don’t Count

The Marshall Project By Alysia Santo After his father was murdered in Sarasota, Florida, in 2015, Anthony "Amp" Campbell was in shock. Not only ...

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