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...Collateral Consequences Resource Center California Enacts Sweeping Fair Employment Law On October 14, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB 1008, the California Fair Chance Act . . . The Act extends a new ban-the-box requirement to private as well as public employers, and it makes...

...Mindy Tarlow; Marta Nelson © The Ohio State University The Time Is Now: Immediate Work for People Coming Home from Prison as a Strategy to Reduce Their Reincarceration and Restore Their Place in the Community MINDY TARLOW Chief Executive Officer, Center for Employment Opportunities MARTA...

... capital in the United States. © The Ohio State University sentencing release procedures recidivism jail reentry prison reentry Reflections on The First Month Out: Reentry Then and Now Marta Nelson Executive Director, Center for Employment Opportunities New York City In May 1999, I joined...

... but also a period of opportunities to get people started on the path to employment, abstinence from drugs, good family relations, and crime-free living. © The Ohio State University sentencing reentry release procedures drug treatment programs Family Strength Index The First Month Out: Post...

... were viewed as avoidable, respondents described changing their behavior to avoid testing—such as avoiding employers who may test for drug use; when screenings were understood as obligatory, like in the context of court ordered community-based addiction treatment, some respondents identified the broader...

... result. Legal consequences of non-payment can in turn result in a person’s loss of a range of other rights, including employment, housing, public assistance, driver’s licenses, and voting rights. The extent of this problem of spiraling criminal debt has been increasingly well-documented and the subject...

... provide support, encouragement, resources, and community that will aid in prisoners’ return to their communities. They encourage an active role in helping defendants under supervision obtain housing, employment, and treatment. They also suggest offering early termination of supervision as a way...

... the American Law Institute and the Uniform Law Commission, have proposed more transparent judicial forgiving or dispensing mechanisms. A variation of the forgiveness model is represented by administratively enforceable standards and procedures for limiting consideration of criminal history in employment...

... family obligations or an ÒextraordinaryÓ employment record. The question raised by this case is what these concepts mean. What is the standard by which to judge ÒextraordinaryÓ family obligations or an ÒextraordinaryÓ work history? What class of defendants deÞne ÒordinaryÓ? While the Sentencing...

... counties, where prosecutors follow idiosyncratic charging practices.5 Some laws reenact protections that already exist or that con ict with other provisions.6 Most problematically, many remedies grant nominal relief that does not meaningfully improve tangible outcomes, such as access to employment...

... in employment and average wages and with a low recidivism rate. We know of only one other similar study, conducted by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, and it came to essentially the same conclusion. One relevant difference between the two studies is that in Michigan set-aside results...

... troublesome for Doe because it appears in the government s databases and in the New York City Professional Discipline Summaries. In other words, the conviction is visible to a prospective employer both as the result of a criminal background check and upon examination of her nursing license. Numerous employers...

... the Illinois State Senate to introduce a new piece of legislation that, he said, contained a compromise. The bill would help job-seekers who had long ago been convicted of a nonviolent crime (or two, at most) overcome the barriers to employment that came with having a criminal history. But the bill would do so...

... Conduct In October 2003, the Department of Justice opened an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified information concerning the employment of Valerie Plame Wilson by the Central Intelligence Agency. The allegations underlying this investigation were serious: that high-ranking...

... of the undue hardship it has created for her in getting and especially keeping jobs. Doe gets hired to ll home health aide and similar positions only to be red when her employers learn through subsequent background checks about her conviction. Since the conviction was for health care fraud, it s hard...

..., this paper examines and highlights the principal legislation that Nevada enacted to remove certain barriers to voting, civic service, employment, and the like for persons previously convicted of a criminal offense. These barriers are often referred to as collateral consequences that are initiated...

... departments of corrections and BOP), jails, and juvenile facilities devote extensive resources to educating and training incarcerated individuals. Vocational training can engage offenders in constructive activities, fostering their employability upon release and their ability to successfully reintegrate...

... for Criminal Justice Act Board and Lisa B. Kemler on brief for National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, amici curiae. Bownes, Senior Circuit Judge. Determining that the defendant exhibited an extraordinary family situation and employment history, the district court (Gertner, J.) departed downward from...

... restrictions on employment, licensing, housing, and a variety of other opportunities and bene ts, creating a sort of internal exile 4 for the millions of affected individuals. Related to this is the atrophy of legal mechanisms through which individuals may avoid or mitigate the consequences of having...

... is that a significant number of the reentry challenges are shouldered by family members.7 Families ease the heightened stress and anxiety of prison releasees during the transition back into society. Relatives can also help with the practical concerns of reentry, including housing, employment, and finances. Moreover...