Key Terms
Those who are in prisons, jails and incarceration supervision (hint: the statistics slide).
What is the Corrections population?
An initiative that prevents employers from asking about criminal history on applications.
What is "Ban the Box"?
The transition from life in jail or prison to life in the community.
What is reentry?
Federal investment ideas that can “reduce recidivism and increase public safety, as well as to reduce corrections costs for state and local governments.”
What is the Second Chance Act?
The extremely high rate of confinement in jail or prison for both adults and youth.
What is mass incarceration?
A national, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that combines the power of a membership association, representing state officials in all three branches of government, with policy and research expertise to develop strategies that increase public safety and strengthen communities.
What is the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center?
Sanctions, restrictions, or disqualifications that stem from a person’s criminal history.
What are collateral consequences?
In Michigan, this legislation aimed to create an automatic system for expungement. A misdemeanor would be expunged seven years after sentencing and up to two felonies could be cleared 10 years after sentencing.
What is House Bill 4980, known as Clean Slate legislation?
The tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend.
What is recidivism?
California lawmakers passed this bill in 2020, prohibiting prosecutors from seeking, obtaining, or imposing a conviction or sentence on the basis of race by empowering defendants to challenge racial bias in their case.
Assembly Bill 2542, AKA, the state’s Racial Justice Act