Law Office of Margaret Love

Collateral Consequences Resource Center

• Restoration of Rights Project (state-by-state legal summaries and 50-state charts)

National Inventory of the Collateral Consequences of Conviction

ABA Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions

• Second Chances in the Criminal Justice System: Alternatives to Incarceration and Reentry Strategies
• Internal Exile: Collateral Consequences of Conviction under Federal Laws and Regulations

Federal Government Agencies:

• U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney
  • Pardon Application Form
  • Commutation Application Form
  • Standards for Federal Pardons (United States Attorneys Manual)
  • Federal Pardon Statistics
• Federal Bureau of Prisons
• National Institute of Corrections
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• United States Sentencing Commission

Professional Organizations:

• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  • NACDL, Collateral Damage: America’s Failure to Forgive or Forget in the War on Crime: A Roadmap to Restore Rights and Status After Conviction (2014)
• American Bar Association:
  • ABA Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions
  • ABA Criminal Justice Section
  • Report of Justice Kennedy Commission (PDF)
  • Criminal Justice Standards on Collateral Sanctions (PDF)
• American Law Institute – Model Penal Code Project
• National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws: Uniform Law on the Collateral Consequences of Conviction
• American Constitution Society for Law and Policy

Research and Advocacy Organizations:

• The Sentencing Project
• Legal Action Center – National H.I.R.E. Network
• National Employment Law Project
• Families Against Mandatory Minimums
• Urban Institute – Justice Policy Center
• Vera Institute – Center for Sentencing and Corrections

Blogs

• Sentencing Law and Policy
• Supreme Court Blog
• Pardon Power Blog