Second Chance Month

We’re highlighting leaders and advocates working to provide opportunities for redemption, rehabilitation, and restoration for those with a criminal record.

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2023

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As One of the Nation’s First Justice-Involved Legislators, Tarra Simmons Is an Example of the Power of Second Chances Second Chance Month

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A Growing Movement to Give People With Arrest or Conviction Records a Second Chance Second Chance Month

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Reforming Occupational Licensing Can Provide Second Chances Second Chance Month

2022

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‘We’re Working to Ensure That a Record Doesn’t Become a Lifetime of Exclusion’ Second Chance Month

Sam Lewis

Formerly Incarcerated Individuals Are Giving Hope to Those Imprisoned in California’s Criminal Justice System Second Chance Month

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Operation Restoration Addresses Unique, Often-Overlooked Reintegration Challenges Faced by Women Second Chance Month

Renaldo Hudson

Providing Second Chances Means Ending Our System of Perpetual Punishment Second Chance Month

Lester Young sits on steps.

Reforming Occupational Licensing Can Provide Second Chances Second Chance Month

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Convicted, Unemployed, Overlooked

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Untapped Potential: The Upside of Hiring People with Convictions

2021

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Pretrial Justice

4 Prosecutor-Driven Diversion Programs Giving Second Chances

Mario Jones Criminal Records Expunge Reintegration

Part 1: Locked Up — and Then Locked Out Reintegration

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Part 3: Removing the Stigma of a Criminal Record — One Law at a Time Reintegration

2 1 Dario Gurrola

Part 2: ‘They’d Rather I Go Wash Dishes’ Reintegration

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‘Banks Won’t Even Talk to Us’: Business Owners with a Criminal Record Face an Abundance of Collateral Consequences

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Criminal Justice

The Era of Punitive Excess

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Driver’s License Suspension Reform Act Paves Way for Justice Improvements Nationally

2020

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Podcast: ‘A Lifetime Sentence to Poverty’: The Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Record Deep Dive with Laura Arnold

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People With Criminal Justice Records Are Being Left out of the COVID Recovery

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Research Shows Unnecessary PPP Loan Exclusions Exacerbated Racial Disparities

Dennis Gaddy, Executive Director of Community Success Initiative

Case Ties North Carolina’s Voting Law to Its Racist History

2019

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What Have We Learned in Two Decades of Second Chances? Second Chance Month

Adam Gelb

Criminal Justice

It’s Big. It’s Ambitious. It’s Bipartisan. A New Organization Seeks to Propel Criminal Justice Reform Q&A

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Community Supervision

Meek Mill Asks Court to Overturn Conviction That Has Kept Him on Probation for More Than a Decade

The “Expression Room” in the T.R.U.E. unit

Thinking Beyond the Prison Cell Transforming Prisons