In California, ex-prisoners have won the right to a second chance

In September, California governor Gavin Newsom signed ground-breaking new legislation allowing people who have committed a crime to apply to have their records expunged. A first of its kind in the United States, the law comes as a relief to hundreds of thousands of former inmates who struggle to find steady (...)Read the full article

By Noémie Taylor-Rosner

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