Senator Leahy Launches The National Inventory of Collateral Consequences
Senator Leahy participated in the launch of an online database tracking the collateral consequences of criminal convictions on September 20. Collateral consequences are legal effects on people convicted of crime beyond the sentences they receive, like restrictions on where they can live or what kind of job they can do.
The National Inventory of the Collateral Consequences of Conviction is a project created as a result of legislative language included by Senator Leahy in the Court Security Improvement Act of 2007, which mandated a study by the National Institute of Justice of the legal consequences to convictions. Common collateral consequences include restrictions on the ability of people to obtain certain types of licenses or to work in certain industries, but these and other consequences vary greatly from state to state and often are little known or understood. The new national website will serve as a clearinghouse to track those consequences and better inform lawmakers, law enforcement officials, and attorneys in order to help them make better decisions and policies that will help prisoners successfully reenter society when they are released from prison.
Pictured above, Senator Leahy delivers remarks at the event launching the new database.
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