Post-Conviction/After Plea Concerns

While the overwhelming majority of our work finds its mooring in enumerated procedural due process guarantees, we also partner with allies across the political spectrum to support the general principle of fairness throughout the criminal legal system, such as working to ensure that millions of Americans who have either been incarcerated or have a criminal record receive a “second chance” and have access to healthcare, education, housing, and employment. Our work in reforming systems that impact Americans after a plea deal or conviction include:

• fighting for fairer sentencing laws
• improving America’s incarceration facilities, processes, and policies
• supporting reentry opportunities for returning citizens
• expanding and streamlining record-sealing and expungement processes
• reforming probation and supervised release systems
• providing “second chances” for persons with arrest or conviction records
• increasing exercise of clemency powers (through pardons and commutations)
• advocating for fairer outcomes in appellate courts