Expungement:

Resources

• "After Prison: Roadblocks to Reentry" - Legal Action Center report, 2004 - includes a comprehensive catalogue of state expungement statutes
• "Starting Over with a Clean Slate: In Praise of a Forgotten Section of the Model Penal Code," by Margaret Love, Fordham Urban L.Rev. (2003)
• "State Crime Records" - NCSL report outlining state crime records, procedures for expungement of criminal records, and two interstate compacts that address information sharing between states.
• Rhode Island Department of the Public Defender 2003 Legislative Package: Expungment Component
• ABA Criminal Justice Standards - Collateral Sanctions and Discretionary Disqualification of Convicted Persons
• Washington state expungement statute

• "Tennessee OKs Segregation-Era Pardons," USA Today, June 8, 2007
• "D.C. Might Shield Ex-Felons From Discrimination," Washington Post, Feb. 13, 2007
• "Expunged Criminal Records Live to Tell Tales," The New York Times, Oct. 17, 2006
• "Erasing the Past," Louisville Courier-Journal (Kentucky), May 16, 2005
• "Baggage Ex-Cons Don't Need," Chicago Sun-Times, July 13, 2003
• "Released into Limbo," Washington Post, Jan. 4, 2003
• "Ex-Felons See Criminal Records as a Life Sentence," Christian Science Monitor, Apr. 12, 2002