This fact sheet was produced by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to provide information on BJA-funded programs that ...
Diversion allows a defendant to earn dismissal of a charge by satisfying conditions set by the prosecutor or court, thereby avoiding conviction. Expun...
This report highlights that, no matter its severity, a criminal record carries a heavy burden, leading to decreased employment opportunities, less tha...
This report from the National Consumer Law Center and the Collateral Consequences Resource Center explores the extent to which court debt—such as crim...
In an effort to argue for automatic pardons, this paper out of Santa Clara University identifies and estimates the “second chance gap” in Connecticut'...
This web-based guide, recipient of the Margaret Taylor Writing Award from the School of Government, explains in one place the principal mechanisms ava...
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...