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...JaneAnne Murray; Sean Hecker; Michael Skocpol; Marissa Elkins © The Ohio State University Second Look ¼ Second Chance: Turning the Tide through NACDL s Model Second Look Legislation1 Introduction Our nation has reached a moment of reckoning. Even before the past year s groundswell...

...Thomas J. Farrell Abstract Amendments to the compassionate release provisions of the federal First Step Act and Second Chance Acts provide some opportunity for release for elderly and infirm federal inmates. This article examines the reentry successes of three Pennsylvania state inmates, all...

...David Farabee © The Ohio State University For the Second Chance Act, Great Strides Will Come in Small Steps DAVID FARABEE Research Psychologist, University of California, Los Angeles 136 I pray this bill gets passed. Everyone makes a mistake, everyone deserves a 2nd chance. Cathy Moreno...

... © The Ohio State University House Committee Report on Second Chance Act Editor s Note: Following are excerpts of the House Judiciary Committee s report on H.R. 1593, the Second Chance Act of 2007. After passage by the full House in November 2007, H.R. 1593 was referred to the Senate Judiciary...

...Michael M. O'Hear © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS The Second Chance Act and the Future of Reentry Reform MICHAEL M. O HEAR Professor, Marquette University Law School Editor, Federal Sentencing Reporter Mass incarceration in the 1980s and 1990s has spawned a prisoner reentry...

...The Council of State Governments © The Ohio State University Summary of Provisions of the Second Chance Act Purpose The Second Chance Act is a modest, commonsense response to the increasing number of people who are released from prison and jail and returning to communities. There are currently...

...Colleen M. Berryessa Abstract Using a national sample of U.S. adults ( N = 371), this study experimentally examines (1) public support for the use of strategies that provide early release (i.e., “second chance” mechanisms) to individuals serving long-term prison sentences for drug crimes; and (2...

...Brian Elderbroom; Julia Durnan © The Ohio State University Reclassi ed: State-Drug Law Reforms to Reduce Felony Convictions and Increase Second Chances Recognizing the harm caused by felony convictions and the importance of targeting limited correctional resources more ef ciently, state...

.... While the Act certainly expands access to compassionate release, it fails to do so generously. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) continues to craft and preserve implementation guidelines that render compassionate release policies ineffective. The Act also revives the Second Chance Act of 2007 by providing...

...Mark Osler Abstract As other second-chance sentencing mechanisms are considered and developed, the reform of federal clemency remains important. As part of broader reforms, clemency can—if revived—serve functions that other pathways cannot. It offers a singular breadth and scope, limited only...

... cases, judges rarely had the chance to take a second look at the prison sentences they (or their colleagues) imposed. Encounters between judges and the people they sentenced typically occurred only if a person violated the terms of supervised release after leaving prison. Now, judges can reassess...

... spring, Congress passed the Second Chance Act of 2007.17 Section 111 creates a grant program within the Department of Justice to fund reentry courts. State and local adult and juvenile court systems may receive up to $500,000 to establish and maintain reentry courts. Applicants must present a long-term...

... and included in the Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2018. Similar to the Second Chance Act of 2007, the 2018 reauthorization aims to improve opportunities for offenders returning to their communities by authorizing the Attorney General to support the provision of funding for adult and juvenile offender...

.... At the national level, both the Clinton and Bush administrations have promoted major initiatives to spur new approaches to prisoner reentry. The Second Chance Act, developed at the request of President George W. Bush following his eloquent call for new thinking about the reentry challenge in his 2004 State...

... to commit a crime, but the best place to get a second chance This slogan t perfectly into the concept of this legislation. How has the law been working in its rst year? Once the law was passed, the courts took a proactive role in carrying out their new responsibilities. They took it upon 262 FEDERAL...

... experience into a permanent one. This does not mesh well with the American ideal of self-reinvention. Yet despite the emerging agreement that many exoffenders deserve second chances, not everyone agrees that these new certi cates are the best way to go about providing redemption. Sharon Dietrich is one...

... Consequences Resource Center I. Background Marion County Deputy Prosecutor Andrew Fogle says the four years since Indiana enacted a broad second chance law have been like the Wild West Fogle, who oversees petitions for expungement for his of ce in Indiana s most populous county, agreed to be interviewed...

..., which amounted to time served.46 Even so, he was one of the very few defendants to get a second chance. Additionally, his new sentence would still strike a huge number of Americans as grossly disproportionate on its face, even if it would not seem unjust to some prosecutors. IV. Limitations of Relying...

... Reinvestment Act and Second Chance Act programs. As we speak, the states that participate in Justice Reinvestment are making fundamental policy reforms that aim to reduce unnecessary con nement, save taxpayer dollars, and reinvest funding in strategies proven to enhance community safety. A report issued...

... life sentences in Pennsylvania who have rehabilitated themselves are seeking to build the idea FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 32, NO. 5 JUNE 2020 261 of a second chance, despite the impossibility of parole. Unlike others who have sentences with minimum and maximum release dates, these individuals...