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

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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. Washington D.C. in the past 50 years. “We

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

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So-called “second chance laws” involving felony charges often take longer to clear than misdemeanors. In addition, as part of the law, former offenders don’t have to check yes when asked if they’ve committed a felony, which often works as a barrier for formerly incarcerated people.

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

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Arizona also repealed a law authorizing suspension of driver’s licenses for failure to pay and authorized its courts to redesignate some felonies as misdemeanors, the report details. . The CCRC researchers note that these states have been “equally unproductive in 2020 and 2019” as well.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. He had been convicted of misdemeanor trespass and felony criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief in October 2017. A second activist who filmed the action was convicted of felony conspiracy to commit criminal mischief and conspiracy trespass, a misdemeanor.

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