A criminal record can affect your job offers, housing, education opportunities and professional goals. Expungement may help by removing or erasing eligible records so that most employers, landlords and members of the public can no longer see them. This can…
Jails are rife with substance abuse. Are special wings like this one in Northumberland the answer? “I was waking up in the morning, shaking,” he says. Scott would start drinking immediately to stop the shakes, as early as 5am. As soon…
When criminal records follow people forever, families struggle, employers lose workers, and communities lose productive citizens. Federal law offers almost no path to redemption, even though second chances strengthen public safety and the economy. But earning a second chance is…
November 21, 2024, 9:00 am CST The California Supreme Court is being asked to automatically expunge records of attorney discipline other than disbarment after eight years, provided that there is no further discipline during that period. (Image from Shutterstock) The State Bar of…
By Anna Stolley Persky August 20, 2024, 1:41 pm CDT A new working paper claims that attorneys who have their disciplinary records expunged are nine times more likely to be disciplined again than lawyers with no history of getting in trouble with attorney…
The program focuses on voting rights criminal justice reform and the legislative process High school girls in New Orleans and Baton Rouge who have a parent who is or was incarcerated can apply for a policy fellowship offering a $3,000 stipend…
Merrillville -- The paperwork said the old record was gone. It carried a judge's signature saying so. Then a gun shop ran a background check, the old conviction came right back up, and, according to Indiana State Police, an alleged five-year…
Understanding the gap between rehabilitation, behaviour change and life outside the therapy room By Emmanuel Chukwudi Ifukor Introduction: When treatment is not enough Imagine a man who has spent several weeks attending anger-management sessions as part of his probation. He…
Investigators say people paid cash for the service and received paperwork that looked official, including fake judges' signatures. LOWELL, Ind — An Indiana woman is accused of taking money from people who wanted their criminal records cleared, then giving them fake…
A Lowell woman is in custody after a three-year Indiana State Police investigation discovered she may have falsified expungement documents and kept the deposit money from the law firm for which she worked. Charged Oct. 14 and arrested the next day,…
Life after prison: reentry programmes, jobs and housing for former prisoners, recidivism, expungement and clean-slate laws.
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