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Increasing the Use of Executive Clemency to Help Low-Income People with Criminal Records
Publication Date: November 2008
Publisher(s): Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law; Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy
Author(s): Marie Claire Tran; Margaret Stapleton
Funder(s): John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Funder(s): John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Series: Vol. 42 No. 7-8
Special Collection: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Topic: Government (Executive power)
Government (Public policy)
Labor (Employment and labor supply)
Social conditions (Alcohol and drug addiction and trafficking)
Social conditions (Poverty and homelessness)
Keywords: Workforce; Prisoner Re-entry; Ex-Offenders; Clemency
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Granting clemency is an expansive and individual power of the executive, and its exercise can break down the barriers to employment often faced by ex-offenders and this means the difference between remaining in and escaping poverty. The next president should use his constitutionally based power to grant clemency frequently and should push for broader expungement rights for offenders as well as a society wide understanding of the value of democracy.