#collateralconsequences

@prgormley.bsky.social

4 days ago

Police drug tests are notoriously unreliable. They got this man wrongly charged with trafficking fentanyl. Roughly 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongfully arrested because of unreliable field drug tests, according to one estimate.

Presumptive #drug tests are not valid #forensic lab tests but are unreliable, and provide cover for otherwise illegal #arrests and numerous #collateralconsequences of arrests for pending drug charges.
reason.com/2026/02/23/h...

JustLeadershipUSA

@jlusa.org

2 weeks ago

In Maryland, 70% of collateral consequences are, what?

○ Education-related
○ Employment-related
○ Healthcare-related
○ Housing-related

Take the quiz: jlusa.org/quiz

#Quiz #CollateralConsequences #PermanentPunishments #Maryland

Sociological Focus

@socfocus.bsky.social

3 months ago

College Applicants with Felony Records: The Impact of Race and Offense Type on College Students’ Attitudes This survey-based experimental vignette examines undergraduate students’ judgments of how restrictive colleges should be in admitting applicants with felony records. Using OLS regression models and...

College undergrads support second chances for people with felony records, but not always. Find out who is considered more deserving in this article by Rena C. Zito, Stacy De Coster, and Eden J. Ralph.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#sociology #secondChance #felony #collateralConsequences

Dr J Warr

@warrcrim.bsky.social

9 months ago

For those in #Criminology and #CriminalJustice doing work on #CriminalRecords and #CollateralConsequences this is a significant breach.

How, and in what ways, can leaked criminal records be weaponised to target individuals?

Will we even discover the fallout from this given who may be #victmised?

Citizen Portal News Tennessee

@citizenptnewstn.bsky.social

1 year ago

Tennessee court debates collateral consequences in Sokolowski probation case Justices discuss implications of conjectural versus actual collateral consequences in legal appeal.

A Tennessee court is tackling the contentious issue of how past criminal convictions can haunt individuals long after they've served their time, potentially reshaping the future of justice in the state.

Learn more here

#TN #CriminalJustice #LegalRights #CollateralConsequences #TennesseeCourts