NACDL - National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Reports    Manuals, Guidelines & Best Practices    Books    Videos, Webinars & Podcasts    Letters & Testimony    Organizational Resources   Restoration of Rights Project

Reports

• Locked Out 2022: Estimates of People Denied Voting Rights, The Sentencing Project, Oct. 2022.

• The Initial Collateral Consequences of Pretrial Detention: Employment, Residential Stability and Family Relationships, New York City Criminal Justice Agency, September 2022.

• No More Double Punishments: Lifting the Ban on SNAP and TANF for People with Prior Felony Drug Convictions, CLASP, April 2022.

• The Many Roads from Reentry to Reintegration: A National Survey of Laws Restoring Rights and Opportunities After Arrest or Conviction, Collateral Consequences Resource Center, March 2022.

• The High Cost of a Fresh Start: A State-by-State Analysis of Court Debt as a Bar to Record Clearing, National Consumer Law Center and Collateral Consequences Resource Center, February 2022.

• Waiting for Relief: A National Survey of Waiting Periods for Record Clearing, Collateral Consequences Resource Center, February 2022.

• From Reentry to Reintegration: Criminal Record Reforms in 2021, Collateral Consequences Resource Center, January 2022.

• Fair Chance Licensing Project: State Expand Access to In-Demand Jobs, Council of State Governments Justice Center, 2021.

• Beyond the Record: A Justice-Oriented Approach to Background Checks, John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity, Sept. 2021. 

• Reintegration Reform Returns to Pre-Pandemic Levels in First Half of 2021, Collateral Consequences Resource Center, July 2021.  

• The Reintegration Agenda During Pandemic: Criminal Record Reforms in 2020, Collateral Consequences Resource Center, Jan. 2021.

• Barriers to Rapidly Growing Professions State Fact Sheets, National Employment Law Project, Dec. 2020.

• Who Must Pay to Regain the Vote? A 50-State Survey, Collateral Consequences Resource Center, Nov. 2020.

• The Many Roads to Reintegration, Collateral Consequences Resource Center, September 2020.

• Barred from Working: A Nationwide Study of Occupational Licensing Barriers for Ex-Offenders, Institute for Justice, June 2020. 

• From Surviving to Thriving: Supporting Transformation, Reentry and Connections to Employment for Young Adults, CLASP, February 2020.

• Pathways to Reintegration: Criminal Record Reforms in 2019, Collateral Consequences Resource Center, February 2020.

• Laying the Groundwork: How States Can Improve Access to Continued Education for People in the Criminal Justice System, Council of State Governments Justice Center, February 2020.

• Felony Disenfranchisement in the Commonwealth of Kentucky: An Update, League of Women Voters of Kentucky, February 2020.

• A Never-Ending Sentence: The Impact of Criminal Conviction in Project Based Section 8 Housing Tenant Selection Plans in Cuyahoga County, Reentry Policy & Advocacy Committee, January 2020.

• Report by the Restoration of Voting Rights Work Group to the President of the Florida Senate and the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, Department of State, November 2019.

• Collateral Consequences: The Crossroads of Punishment, Redemption, and the Effects on Communities, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, June 2019.

• Unlocking Potential: Pathways from Prison to Postsecondary Education, Vera Institute of Justice, May 2019.

• Expanding the Vote: Two Decades of Felony Disenfranchisement Reforms, The Sentencing Project, October 2018.

• Forgiving and Forgetting in American Justice: A 50-State Guide to Expungement and Restoration of Rights, Collateral Consequences Resource Center, April 2018. 

• One Strike and You’re Out: How We Can Eliminate Barriers to Economic Security and Mobility for People with Criminal Records, Center for American Progress, December 2014.

• A Lifetime of Punishment: The Impact of the Felony Drug Ban on Welfare Benefits, The Sentencing Project, 2013.

• Wanted: Accurate FBI Background Checks for Employment, The National Employment Law Project, July 2013.

• Osler, Mark William, Clemency for the 21st Century: A Systemic Reform of the Federal Clemency Process, April 2013.

• Status of Ex-Offender Reentry Efforts in Cities, The United States Conference of Mayors, 2009.

• More Than a Job: Final Results from the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Transitional Jobs Program, Center for Employment Opportunities, January 2012.

NACDL Reports

• Shattering the Shackles of Collateral Consequences: Exploring Moral Principles and Economic Innovations to Restore Rights and Opportunity, 2019. 

• Collateral Damage: America's Failure to Forgive or Forget in the War on Crime, 2014.
   

Manuals, Guidelines & Best Practices

• The Juvenile Justice Center, Florida New Juvenile Defender Attorney Manual.

• The Juvenile Justice Center, The Florida Juvenile Collateral Consequences Checklist: A Guide for Understanding the Consequences of Juvenile Court Involvement.

• The Florida Bar Standing Committee on the Legal Needs of Children, Florida Guidelines of Practice: For Attorneys who Represent Children in Delinquency Proceedings, January 21, 2010.

• Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Best Practice Standards: The Proper Use of Criminal Records in Hiring, May 21, 2013.
   

Books

• Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction: Law, Policy and Practice by Margaret Colgate Love, Jenny Roberts & Wayne Logan, 2021-2022 ed. 

• Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions by Beth M. Huebner and Natasha A. Frost, 2018. 
   

Videos, Webinars & Podcasts

• Florida Voter Prosecutions Criminal Defense Training, NACDL and Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, June 2023.

• Rights Restoration and the Criminalization of Voting, Campaign Legal Center, May 2023.

• Race and the Criminal Legal System: Collateral Consequences Part II, NACDL, April 2021.

• Race and the Criminal Legal System: Collateral Consequences Part I, NACDL, April 2021. 

• Moral and Economic Obligation to Restoring Rights and Opportunity, NACDL, June 2019.

• Forgetting: Alleviating Collateral Consequences Through the Legislative & Referendum Process,  NACDL, June 2019.

• Forgiving: The Campaign Against the Scarlet Letter, NACDL, June 2019.

• I Am My Brother's Keeper: Guiding Principles of Re-Entry, NACDL, June 2019.

• This Side of the Law: Reentered, Reformed & Reinvented, NACDL, June 2019.

• The Criminal Docket Episode 25: NACDL's Restoration of Rights Database, NACDL, October 2012.

Organizational Resources and Websites

• Collateral Consequences Resource Center

• Restoration of Rights Project

• National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Conviction

• Free to Drive Coalition

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• Restoration of Rights
• Restoration of Rights Task Force