Collateral Consequences

Articles across the publication that deal with collateral consequences.

Criminal Law & Civil Rights
Restitution and Court Fines: Ability to Pay, Payment Plans, and Consequences

A sentence often includes three separate money obligations. They are imposed differently, waived differently, and enforced differently, and treating them as one bill is how people end up back in court.
6 min readGuide
Criminal Law & Civil Rights
Occupational Licensing After a Conviction: Review Standards and Appeals

Licensing boards used to deny applications on a vague finding about character. A wave of state reform has narrowed that, and added a way to find out before you spend money on training.
7 min readAnalysis
Criminal Law & Civil Rights
Voting Rights After a Conviction: Restoration Rules by Jurisdiction

Two states never take the vote away. Others restore it at release, at the end of supervision, or only through an individual act of clemency. Residence decides which rule applies.
6 min readExplainer
Criminal Law & Civil Rights
Juvenile Court: Petitions, Adjudication, Disposition, and Sealing

Juvenile court runs on different vocabulary and a different purpose, but the due-process protections are real. Where the systems converge is in what the record does years later.
7 min readExplainer