This bulletin discusses common misconceptions surrounding expungement. It also provides information about the collateral consequences of juvenile reco...
As this brief from the Prison Policy Initiative explores, most people in jail are legally eligible to vote, but in practice, they cannot. This “de fac...
In 2014, Juvenile Law Center published the first-ever comprehensive evaluation of each state’s juvenile record confidentiality and expungement laws ag...
This journal article out of Santa Clara University identifies and estimates the “second chance gap” in Washington's “expungements” to determine the sh...
This journal article from Sonja B. Starr argues that Arizona should adopt an expungement law, ideally joining the “Clean Slate” movement to make expun...
By CSG Justice Center StaffFor the more than 70 million adults in the U.S. who have a criminal record, and the more than one million youth who acquire...
This report, from Code for America, is part of their effort to help make the case for policy reforms that are driven by the aggregate experiences of r...
The long-term, sometimes lifelong, impact of a criminal record often keeps many qualified people from obtaining employment and accessing housing, hi...