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REDEEM Act - Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment Act (2015)

Congress.gov.

Bill introduced to Senate on 3/9/2015:
Amends the federal criminal code to provide a process for the sealing or expungement of records relating to nonviolent criminal or juvenile offenses. Requires a court considering a petition to seal a nonviolent offense to balance factors including the harm of the protected information to the ability of the petitioner to secure and maintain employment.

The Price We Pay: Economic Costs of Barriers to Employment for Former Prisoners and People Convicted of Felonies (2016)

Bucknor, Cherries and Alan Barber. Center for Economic and Policy Research.

This report the estimates the impact of non-working felons on the employment rate and the cost to the annual GDP. Assuming a mid-range 12 percentage-point employment penalty for this population, this report finds that there was a 0.9 to 1.0 percentage-point reduction in the overall employment rate in 2014, equivalent to the loss of 1.7 to 1.9 million workers. In terms of the cost to the economy as a whole, this suggests a loss of about $78 to $87 billion in annual GDP.

Nevada Department of Public Safety - Parole and Probation - Sex Offender Conditions of Supervision

A portion of sex offenders are actively being supervised by the Nevada Department of Public Safety Division of Parole and Probation. Such offenders are being supervised while on probation, parole, or lifetime supervision. Nevada law has defined those conditions that a sex offender must follow while on probation. Though the conditions for parole or lifetime supervision differ slightly, the bulk of these conditions are imposed for the majority of sex offenders under supervision.

Appeals Court Strikes Down Stringent Sex-Offender Probation Conditions (2016)

Charles Murray was sentenced to 95 months' imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, and as part of that sentence was required to fulfill "various special conditions of supervised release that, for example, require(d) him to register as a sex offender and to submit to unannounced searches of his computer," according to the decision.

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