The weak economy and a rethinking of the logic of mass incarceration — driven in large part by budget pressures — have also brought attention to the situations of ex-offenders like Mr. Langdon, who face the collateral consequences of conviction long after their involvement with the criminal justice system has ended.
"She and her baby have been traumatized, she was jailed on an unrelated warrant and may face additional collateral consequences," he continued.
That means 10percentt adult black men may face the heavy collateral consequences of those convictions: bans from federal public housing, reduced employment prospects, disenfranchisement, and ineligibility from poverty programs designed to provide a safety net and which, in their absence, only reinforce poverty and deprivation.
Because the policy has been used sparingly, the feared collateral consequences have mostly been avoided.
In 1996, Daryl served 40 months in prison after pleading guilty to a first-time non-violent drug crime -- and when he was released, he faced a series of collateral consequences.
Block asked the U.S. Attorney's office and the Federal Defenders of New York, which represented Nesbeth, to provide him with a list of the collateral consequences that she faces as a convicted felon.
He wrote that it was largely "because of a number of statutory and regulatory collateral consequences she will face as a convicted felon"—restrictions that the federal government, as well as every state government, imposes on anyone convicted of a crime, but especially a felony.
Those who laid this foundation continue to pay a steep price, because it is they who are disproportionately targeted by police, they who are being arrested and sentenced to lengthier sentences, and they who face barriers to reentry and suffer the devastating collateral consequences of incarceration -- consequences that have generational impact.
I also want to focus on the harm being caused by this lie — what are the collateral consequences of our collective inability to face and tell our opioid use truth?
This is one reason why the state's Collateral Consequences Workgroup recommended that most work restrictions faced by those with records should not last longer than seven years.
