Lots of remarkable new CCRC posts highlighting “The Many Roads From Reentry to Reintegration”

Regular readers should recall me highlighting all the great work being done regularly over at the Collateral Consequences Resource Center, and an array of recent postings at CCRC captures all the incredible content connected to its latest publication of a national report surveying various legal mechanisms for restoring rights titled “The Many Roads to Reintegration.”   Today’s post links to the main publication and sets the context:

We are pleased to publish the March 2022 revision of our national survey of laws restoring rights and opportunities after arrest or conviction, “The Many Roads from Reentry to Reintegration.” Like the earlier report, this report contains a series of essays on various relief mechanisms operating in the states, including legislative restoration of voting and firearms rights, various types of criminal record relief (expungement and sealing, pardon, judicial certificates), and laws limiting consideration of criminal record in fair employment and occupational licensing.

Drawing on material from CCRC’s flagship resource the Restoration of Rights Project, the report grades each state for the scope and efficacy of its laws in nine different relief categories. Based on these grades, it compiles an overall ranking of the states. As described below, most of the states identified as reform leaders in our 2020 report still rank highly, but several new states have joined them. Half a dozen other states made substantial improvements in their ranking by virtue of progressive legislation enacted in 2020 and 2021, in two cases (D.C. and Virginia) rising from the bottom ten to the top 20.

In addition, over the last couple weeks, CCRC has been highlight parts of this report though these individual postings:

Expungement, Sealing & Set-Aside of Convictions: A National Survey

Fair Chance Employment and Occupational Licensure: A National Survey

Executive Pardon: A National Survey

Judicial Diversion and Deferred Adjudication: A National Survey