Analysis
Keeping Families Together, Saving Money & Other Motivations Behind New Civil Right to Counsel Laws
To inform advocates seeking expansion of the right to counsel, the Brennan Center’s Laura Abel provides an overview of existing right to counsel statutes across the states and the legislative motivations that led to their passage.
Authored by: Laura Abel, in the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
– 03/11/10
Evaluating the Reentry Hurdles of Fees and Fines Debt: A Checklist for State Reentry Taskforces
Information on the re-entry consequences of court-imposed financial obligations.
Authored by: Mitali Nagrecha
– 03/10/10
Choosing California’s State Redistricting Citizen’s Commission
Guidelines for choosing the state redistricting auditors for California. Process, Powerpoint presentation, and criteria….
Authored by: Justin Levitt
– 03/04/10
Analyses of Illinois’ Fair Map Amendment and HC16
Comparisons of 2010 Illinois redistricting citizens’ ballot initiative, a leading legislative proposal, and the process currently in place for drawing Illinois state and congressional districts.
Authored by: Justin Levitt
– 02/18/10
Fact Sheets | Language Access Problems Among Government Bodies
Fact sheets illustrating the serious harms and deprivations of rights that result when individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) are unable to access essential government bodies.
Authored by: National Language Access Advocates Network (N-LAAN)
– 02/02/10
U.S. Census and Incarceration Fact Sheet
– 01/27/10
Timeline of FY 2010 Appropriations Process and Efforts to Repeal Key LSC Restrictions
An overview of the progress in this year’s efforts to lift the legal services restrictions.
– 12/16/09
Justin Levitt Speaks on Alternative Voting Systems and Redistricting Consequences of Incarceration
Justin Levitt speaks to the International Municipal Lawyers’ Association in Columbia, SC on alternative voting systems and the count of incarcerated persons in redistricting.
– 12/10/09