The bipartisan “Clean Slate” legislation, as advocates call it, wipes clean a range of convictions from people’s records after a defined waiting period.
Convictions cleared for nearly 850K Michiganders as ‘Clean Slate’ program takes effect Read more
Under SB64, offenders who committed crimes when they were younger than 18 and received life sentences will be eligible for parole hearings 15 to 25 years into their sentences.
New Mexico governor signs bill ending juvenile life sentences without parole Read more
Governor Gavin Newsom told the Los Angeles Times that his goal was “ending San Quentin as we know it” and working to “completely reimagine what prison means.”
The expungement is the latest byproduct of the constitutional amendment approved by Missouri voters, which legalized pot for adults and cleared the way for Missourians to have their records cleared.
Over 7,500 cannabis convictions expunged in Missouri Read more
A new U.S. law that will allow the FCC to regulate prison phone calls needs only President Biden’s signature to put an end to a largely unknown, yet famously predatory, prison practice.
U.S. to eliminate exorbitant cost of prison phone calls Read more
Oregon Governor Kate Brown has announced today that she has issued pardons to everyone caught possessing up to an ounce of marijuana prior to its legalization in 2016.
Oregon governor pardons over 45,000 marijuana convictions Read more
The plan has yet to be formally approved in parliament, but is expected to become law as soon as 2024 after the nation’s coalition government recently agreed to it.
Germany to become second E.U. nation to legalize recreational cannabis Read more
More than 6,000 people with prior federal convictions for simple possession of marijuana — and thousands of others convicted under Washington, D.C., law — could benefit.
President Biden pardons all prior federal offenses of simple possession of marijuana Read more
HB 244 bans courts from charging interest or imposing fees for late payments, failing to pay, or paying in installments, among several other changes meant to reduce abusive fines and fees.
New Delaware law ends many fines and fees that criminalize poverty Read more
Law enforcement agencies made an estimated 424,300 arrests of youth in 2020, a 38% drop from the previous year and half the number from five years earlier.
Youth crime in the U.S. has plummeted 78% since 1994 Read more
