The Unfair Roadblock: While states have a legitimate interest in keeping individuals who are unfit to drive off the roads, many states have passed laws suspending or revoking the drivers’ licenses of people convicted of drug offenses, even when these offenses are unrelated to their ability to dri...
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The Unfair Roadblock: Individuals leaving jail and prison often need a range of services – including alcohol and drug, mental health, and other health care treatment – to make a successful transition from incarceration to the community. Medicaid can often pay for these services, yet most states f...
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The Unfair Roadblock: More than 600,000 people will be released from prison this year. An even greater number will be released from local jails. Individuals returning home will face many challenges. Often, their most immediate need will be securing safe and affordable housing, which for many peop...
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People with criminal records face a daunting array of counterproductive, debilitating legal barriers that make it much more difficult for them to succeed in almost every important aspect of life. The Legal Action Center’s groundbreaking report, After Prison: Roadblocks to Reentry, documents and g...
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Open Society Institute: Criminal Justice InitiativeSeptember 24, 2002http://www.soros.orgMission:The Criminal Justice Initiative signifies the Open Society Institute's strong commitment to reducing the excessive reliance on punishment and incarceration in the United States, and to promoting fair ...
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by Lenore Anderson - September 14, 2012After decades of being one of the nation’s—and world’s—largest incarcerators, the state of California is undergoing unprecedented changes. For the first time in 30 years, the state prison population is dropping by the thousands, and the public is supportin...
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Earlier this year, President Bush signed into law the Second Chance Act of 2007. The purpose of the bill is to assist ex-offenders in starting "new lives" by providing education in prison and other support services upon re-entering society. While the value of education has been well doc...
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Defy Ventures helped Maliki Cottrell, who served time for carrying a gun without a permit, build a trash-hauling business.Victor J. Blue for The New York TimesBy JESSICA WEISBERG September 23, 2012 As a heroin dealer in Rhode Island, Jose Vasquez made $2,000 a day. He said he had a way with hi...
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By Corey Kilgannon August 17, 2012 It is said that older people like to enumerate their various health woes, and apparently aging Yippies are no different. Dana Beal, 65, a founder of the Youth International Party in the 1960s and a longtime marijuana and medical-marijuana advocate, has b...