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Illinois Scores Top Rank in Reintegrating Ex-Incarcerees, Alaska is Lowest

The Crime Report

A companion “report card” ranking all 50 states according to how well they measure up in nine different areas of reentry and reintegration gives Illinois the highest marks and places Alaska at the bottom. and then assigning an overall ranking for each state.

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Does Expunging Criminal Records Offer a More Feasible Re-entry? 

The Crime Report

A “second chance law” in Indiana expunges criminal records after five to eight years. The Indiana law allows individuals to get those old criminal records expunged after they’ve remained out of trouble for five or eight years, depending on the offense, reports WRTV Indianapolis.

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Alaska’s Justice System Struggles to Define Mental ‘Competency’

The Crime Report

In Alaska, a man accused of assaulting a woman behind a grocery store who was later found incompetent to stand trial for multiple felonies including assault, sexual assault, and robbery, and was then released back into the community, has highlighted a major flaw in the state’s criminal justice system, reports Alaska’s News Source.

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Status quo watch

SCOTUSBlog

But the court denied review without recorded dissent to two-time relist Alaska v. Alaska State Employees Association , involving whether the nation’s largest state is doing enough to protect the First Amendment rights of state employee union members. The rest of last installment ’s relists are back for another go-round.

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States Increase Efforts to End ‘Internal Exile’ of Former Incarcerees: Report

The Crime Report

This year’s rich harvest brings the total number of criminal record reforms enacted in the past three years to over 400 separate laws,” the report said, celebrating what it said was a bipartisan commitment to end “unwarranted discrimination” against the formerly incarcerated. not disenfranchising at all).

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Chiefs: Dropping Gun Permits Threatens Public Safety—and Officers’ Lives

The Crime Report

No law enforcement official I’ve spoken with thinks these policies are a good idea. She wrote , “the new law will complicate the tasks of determining who is not permitted to carry a gun and of getting illegally possessed guns off our streets.” Indiana’s permitless carry law goes into effect on July 1.

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Injustice With Impunity: A Texas Tale

The Crime Report

He also moonlighted as a law clerk for the same judges who presided over his cases. Overall, Petty simultaneously served as a prosecutor and law clerk at least 300 times. Our public interest law firm, the Institute for Justice, represents her. Eventually he filed a lawsuit under the state’s Right to Know Law.