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The Virginia Redemption Project is an initiative of NACDL’s Return to Freedom Project. To see other active projects and volunteer as an attorney, go to https://www.nacdl.org/freedom.

The Virginia Redemption Project is an initiative of NACDL’s Return to Freedom Project. To see other active projects and volunteer as an attorney, go to https://www.nacdl.org/freedom.

The Excessive Sentence Project is an initiative of NACDL’s Return to Freedom Project. To see other active projects and volunteer as an attorney, go to https://www.nacdl.org/freedom.

On March 31st, 2022, NACDL ushered in Second Chance Month with Second Chance Stories: Returning to Freedom, a webinar during which recent clemency recipients and their attorneys, paired through NACDL’s Return to Freedom Project, discussed the critical importance of second chances for incarcerated individuals. The discussion was be moderated by Return to Freedom Project Legal director John Albanes and featured Sincere B. Allah, Clemency Recipient; Brendan O’Toole, Attorney at Williams Mullen; Chalana McFarland, Advocate; and Cynthia Roseberry, Deputy Director of Policy at the ACLU, Justice Division. 

Watch Sincere, Brendan, and two other pairs of clemency recipients and their attorneys tell their stories in short videos.

The Trial Penalty Clemency Project is an initiative of NACDL’s Return to Freedom Project. To see other active projects and volunteer as an attorney, go to https://www.nacdl.org/freedom.

The Trial Penalty Clemency Project is an initiative of NACDL’s Return to Freedom Project. To see other active projects and volunteer as an attorney, go to https://www.nacdl.org/freedom.