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Onsite Information
- Welcome Letter
- Agenda
- Speaker Biographies
- Events on Saturday
- Film Summary
- Champion of State Criminal Justice Reform Award
General Related Materials
- Promotional video, featuring Mike Epps, Drew Findling, & Angelyn Frazer-Giles
- Norman Reimer article marking NACDL’s Collateral Damage report release, The Champion (May 2014)
- NACDL report information page, Collateral Damage: America’s Failure to Forgive or Forget in the War on Crime – A Roadmap to Restore Rights and Status After Arrest or Conviction (2014)
- Restoration of Rights Project page
Collaboration with Collateral Consequences Resource Center, National Legal Aid and Defender Association, and National H.I.R.E. Network - NACDL report information page, Criminal Justice in the 21st Century: Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System (2012)
- Trial Penalty Report? Trial Penalty survey?
- Drew Findling profile, New York Times, February 2018
- “Workers With Criminal Records – A Survey by the Society for Human Resource Management and the Charles Koch Institute” (May 2018)
Keynote Speaker: Sally Yates
- “Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates Delivers Remarks on Criminal Justice Reform at Columbia Law School” (October 29, 2015)
- “Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates Delivers Remarks at National Reentry Week Event at Santa Maria Hostel in Houston” (April 26, 2016)
- “Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates Delivers Remarks at the Second Chance Pell Pilot Inaugural Convening” (July 19, 2016)
- “Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates Delivers McNamara Memorial Lecture at Fordham University (November 14, 2016)”
Panel: Setting the Stage
- Rick Jones remarks at report launch of Collateral Damage (October 2012)
- Task Force on Restoration of Rights and Status After Conviction Chicago, Illinois Hearing Highlights (video) (2011)
- Reducing Barriers for New Yorkers with Criminal Convictions (video) (September 2015)
- Bipartisan Summit: Innovative Models: Re-entry and Restoring Rights to the Formerly Incarcerated (video) (March 2015)
- Collateral Consequences Hearing before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee (June 2014)
- “The Cost Of Prison” (audio) – On Point, WBUR (February 2013)
- “Marc Levin Speaks At FreedomFest About Barriers To Reentry” (July 2015)
- “Reentry programs are pathways to redemption” – Right on Crime
- Teresa Hodge TEDx Talk – “We have made coming home from prison entirely too hard” (video)
- “I Went to Prison – How’s That for an Ice Breaker?” – b'ing stigma-free (July 2015)
- “Meet the Entrepreneurs of Unlocked Futures” (video) – Let’s Free America (November 2017)
- “And Justice For All”
- Koch Industries interview (audio)
- “Deep Dive: Criminal Justice & Prison Reform” (video) – Aspen Ideas Festival (2015)
- “Criminal Justice Reform, Politics, and Forging a Way Forward” (audio) – Aspen Ideas Festival (2018)
- “Mark Holden on Criminal Justice Reform” (video) – C-SPAN (May 2018)
Panel: I am My Brother’s Keeper
- “Baltimore Non-Profit Helps Returning Citizens Rejoin Society” – Baltimore Afro-American (October 2017)
- “Meet Lil Baby: High School Friend of Young Thug Is ATL's Next Up” – com (June 2017)
- “Weed Racer: The Unlikely Rise and Epic Fall of Florida’s Marijuana-Smuggling Kingpin” – Rolling Stone (January 2018)
- “How I Got Back in a Race Car After Drug Trafficking Sent Me to Prison for 26 Years” – Road & Track (November 2015)
- “Indy Car Vice” – Sports Illustrated (January 2017)
Panel: The Road to Re-Entry
- “States ease access to welfare and food stamps for convicted drug felons” (video) – PBS Newshour
- “Don’t use our communities to justify drug war” – San Francisco Chronicle
- “Re-entry vs. Resettlement: Towards Alternative Policies” – NuLeadership Policy Group
- “On the Concept of Human Justice” (video) – Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions Inaugural Human Justice Award Gala (April 13, 2012)
Champion of Justice Restoration of Rights Award Recipient
Gov. Nathan Deal (Georgia)
- “A Republican Governor Is Leading the Country's Most Successful Prison Reform” – The New Republic
- “States ease access to welfare and food stamps for convicted drug felons” (video) – PBS Newshour
Panel: Forgiving
- Cynthia Roseberry: “My Father, My Hero’’ (video) – TEDx talk
- “Written Testimony of Cynthia W. Roseberry, Executive Director, Council for Court Excellence, Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Oversight of the Bureau of Prisons and Inmate Reentry” (December 13, 2017)
- “Clemency Project Races To Prepare Thousands Of Applications For Review” (audio) – All Things Considered, NPR
- “Justice Reform: Cynthia Roseberry on #justiceislove” (audio) – Law Talk to BJ podcast
- “What It Takes to Secure Clemency” – The Atlantic
- “Jason Hernandez” – Nation of Second Chances
- “A Longer Than Life Sentence” – ACLU blog
- “Jason Hernandez: Proud to Be the First Latino to Receive Clemency from President Obama” – Drug Policy Alliance
- “You Serve Your Time, Earn Your Freedom, Then the Job Market Shuts the Door in Your Face” – Huffington Post
- “Dear President Obama: Thank You For My Second Chance” – Huffington Post
- “Jason Hernandez - Conversations on Justice” – Justice Roundtable (March 2016)
- “Data-Driven Reentry Initiative Tackles Recidivism” – Right on Crime
- “For John Koufos, the Road to Redemption is Long” – NJ Monthly
- “John Koufos knows a thing or two about second chances” – Koch Industries
- Safe Streets & Second Chances
- “Jim McGreevey & John Koufos discuss transitioning former inmates back into society” – New Jersey Capitol Report, PBS
- “This Nonprofit Has Hit on the Way to Keep Ex-Offenders Out of Prison” – Nation Swell
- “Collateral Consequences in Occupational Licensing Act” – Collateral Consequences Resource Center blog
- “National law reform proposal on collateral consequences” – Collateral Consequences Resource Center blog
Panel: Criminal Justice Leaders/Authors
- “Prison and Sentencing Reform” (video; *Nkechi introduced at 1:08:10) – Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, C-SPAN
- “Ex-inmate Susan Burton goes back to prison to lead out women she left behind” – LA Times
- “After 6 Prison Terms, A Former Inmate Helps Other Women Rebuild Their Lives” (audio) – Fresh Air, NPR
- “Women and reentry” (audio) – Radio Times, WHYY
- “Mike Epps: Unsuccessful Thug” – FOX59 Indianapolis
- “48 Hours: Grave Injustice” (video) – CBS
- “How Anthony Graves Went from Death Row to Overseeing the Houston Crime Lab” (video) – NBC News
- “Anthony Graves on Overcoming a Wrongful Conviction” (audio) – State Bar of Texas Podcast
- “Guiding Our Youth in the Right Direction” (audio) – University of Georgia Center for Social Justice
- Freedom is a Choice
- “Released” documentary (video)
Panel: Forgetting
- “Criminal Discovery Reform Efforts in Virginia” – NACDL’s The Criminal Docket podcast
- “Sunday Conversation with Marissa McCall Dodson” – Atlanta Journal Constitution
- “Dodson: Reforming Criminal Justice System Starts with Addressing Racism Within It” – Georgia State University news, 2017 Law Week keynote address
- “From Jail to Law School: Jim Crow-Era Law Bars Florida Man From Voting, Taking Bar, Serving on Jury” (video) – Democracy Now!
- “Deny the once-imprisoned food benefits, and undermine their chance of rehabilitation” – Miami Herald (July 2018)
- “Voting Rights For All | Desmond Meade” (video) – Represent.Us
- State Occupational Licensing Reforms for Workers with Criminal Records – Institute for Justice
- Model Collateral Consequences in Occupational Licensing Act – Institute for Justice
- A New Vision for the 21st Century Prosecutor (video) – NYU School of Law
- Adam John Foss' Bold Idea for Reforming Prosecutors (video) – FUSION
- the Prosecutors – The Marshall Project
- Fair and Just Prosecution
- Informed Voters – Fair Judges Project – from the National Association of Women Judges
- Pretrial Diversion – from the National Conference of State Legislatures
- Prosecutors Are Banding Together to Prevent Criminal-Justice Reform – The Nation
Panel: And Justice for All
- “Mass Exoneration and Ethics: Perspectives from Law Enforcement” (video) – Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law David F. and Constance B. Girard-diCarlo Center for Ethics, Integrity and Compliance (April 2018)
- “Unfair and unsafe: Even prosecutors want to end California’s reliance on money bail” – Sacramento Bee (January 2018)
- “In Their Words | Judge Shawn Ellen LaGrua (J.D. ’87)” – Georgia State University College of Law Alumni Magazine (Spring 2016)
Champion of State Criminal Justice Reform Award Recipient
Second Chance Center (Aurora, CO) Executive Director Hassan Latif
- “Colorado parolees: For many, life outside harder than prison” – The Denver Post (September 2013)
Panel: This Side of the Law
- “The Smart on Crime Principles” (video) – John Jay College (October 2017)
- “After Exoneration, Jarrett Adams is Helping Others Wrongfully Convicted” (video) – NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (August 2017)
- “Life After Justice” (video) – Chicago Ideas (October 2014)
- “This Man Served 10 Years in Prison, Now He’s A Defense Lawyer” (video) – Great Big Story (February 2018)
- “Meet a convicted felon who became a Georgetown law professor” (video) – CBS 60 Minutes (July 2018)
- “Do convicted criminals deserve a second chance? One man's incredible story offers a clue” – Fox News (April 2018)
- “Invisibilia: Do the Patterns in Your Past Predict Your Future?” – NPR’s Invisibilia (March 2018)
- “Life after prison: After being pardoned by Obama and becoming a lawyer, one woman explains what’s next for Alice Marie Johnson” – The Grio (June 2018)
- “Serena Nunn - Conversations on Justice” (video) – Justice Roundtable (March 2016)
Panel: Entrepreneurship and Training
- “Meet the Entrepreneurs of Unlocked Futures” (video) – Let’s Free America
- “Deep Dive: Rethinking Prison” (video; see from 49:30) – Aspen Ideas Festival (June 2016)
- “Marcus Bullock: Getting Mail To Every Person in Every Prison in America | 114” (audio) – The Trailblazers Podcast
- “The prison to entrepreneurship pipeline” (video) – TEDx talk (April 2017)
- “Collateral Consequences: The Story of Marcus Bullock- Juvenile Justice Advocate” (video) – Campaign for Youth Justice (October 2015)
- “Restaurant gives ex-offenders a recipe for success” – CNN Heroes (July 2016)
- “Knife Skills” – documentary
- EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute
- “Changing the Face of Re-Entry” (video) – The City Club of Cleveland (September 2015)
- Blog post – Brandon Chrostowski
- “From the Block to the Boardroom” (video) – C-SPAN (July 2014)
- “Tracey L Fisher Re Entry Point of View Tracey D Syphax” (video) – Re-Entry Point of View (March 2017)
- “Tracey Syphax: From the Block to the Boardroom” (audio) – Prison or ESHIP podcast (April 2018)
Panel: Film Discussion
- “Free Her Conference” (video, see Part 2) – Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice (August 2015)
- “The Sentence (Film & Discussion)” (audio) – Aspen Ideas Festival (June 2018)
- “Ethical Issues, 2014 Clemency Project Day 2” (video) – Clemency Project 2014 (September 2014)
