HB 1085 Moved to new committees: Infrastructure & Appropriations Subcommittee and Infrastructure Strategies Committee Major Concerns About This Bill: The bill states that all driver’s licenses and identification cards for people on the registry “shall have printed...
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Deadline to submit comments in favor of compassionate release expansion…
Dear Friends,The deadline to submit comments in favor of compassionate release expansion is coming up fast! Will you take a moment to contact the U.S. Sentencing Commission? You can submit your comments by visiting the following site and clicking on "Submission...
Tell the Senate to Defend Second Chances
Washington, D.C. just became the first jurisdiction in the country to pass universal second look legislation into law, but now it’s under Congressional attack and we need your help to protect the future of second chances across the country.This fall, the D.C. Council...
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The Dobbs Wire: Shadow Prisons??
Prison Policy Initiative, a criminal justice think tank, has an important new post shining a spotlight on little-known ‘shadow prisons’ which exist in states around the country. That’s where thousands are locked up indefinitely--individuals who have already been...
Surveillance Technologies Don’t Create Safety. They Intensify State Violence.
Surveillance technologies create a dragnet to monitor nearly everyone and collect data on all of our behaviors.By Ed Vogel & Fletcher Nickerson , TRUTHOUTPublishedMay 21, 2023 Surveillance technologies intensify and exacerbate the...
California’s oldest state prison will get overhauled
͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Highlights ✔️ California's oldest state prison will get overhauled into a "one-of-a-kind" correctional institution that borrows rehabilitation practices from places such as Norway.✔️ Under the proposed $20 million plan, San Quentin State...
Support Second Chances
Why do we celebrate Second Chance Month®? For most of us, our worst choices don’t trap us forever. But unreasonable laws block the path to a brighter future for millions of Americans with a criminal record—often long after they’ve been held accountable. These...
CCNCR at TeamWork Makes the Dream Work 2023
Imagine a world without the registry. Imagine being free after paying one’s debt to society. And imagine not being defined by your worst mistake for the rest of your life. This is what the brave and committed people imagined who attended the WAR conference in DC last...
The Dobbs Wire: It’s a WIN in the Minnesota Supreme Court
The Dobbs Wire: It’s a WIN in the Minnesota Supreme Court--a new ruling concerning the Minnesota sex offense civil commitment program (MSOP)! The case is about the interminable delays by which the state consumes constitutional and human rights to...
Vicki Henry from WAR joining our call
Dear Friends, We are pleased to have Vicki Henry from WAR joining our call. Please listen in to hear more about the 2023 Washington Conference. Please plan on joining us for CCNCR's national monthly phone conference. You must announce your first name...
CCNCR Blog
My life in the shadows
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