NEWS, EVENTS, AND BLOGS
October 5, 2021
On the last day of the 2021 legislative session, a bill that would have limited employers’ and landlords’ access to criminal...
May 26, 2021
Pew reported recently that “a growing number of states are trying to ease the burden of expungement and record clearing by...
May 21, 2021
“’I just worry that we are over-promising something to millions of people — that there’s going to be a magic wand...
May 7, 2021
CDIA values second chances. Too many people leave incarceration without the proper skills to reenter society. One company leading the way...
November 29, 2018
We agree with the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) when it says that former inmates need stability for successful reintegration in to...
November 29, 2018
The Center for American Progress has announced a “bipartisan criminal justice campaign known as ‘clean slate.'” According to the announcement, “a diverse...
November 11, 2015
A recent NY Times editorial got it wrong. The piece supports a “a federal judge in Brooklyn [who] took the extraordinary...
March 19, 2015
In Feb. 2015, CDIA’s Senior Vice President of Public Policy & Legal Affairs, Eric J. Ellman, was a panelist at the 1st National...
November 18, 2014
As noted in a recent article in the American Bar Association’s ABA Journal, “Baltimore lawyer Jason Tashea is hoping to make...