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"We Deserve Our Lives Back"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the name of this website.  Here is its mission statement: We Deserve Our Lives Back is a non-profit organization established to locate bills/laws that work in conjunction with second chance agencies in providing a re-entry plateau for ex-offenders.  Our mission is to reduce recidivism by conversing, petitioning and sharing information through media outlets.  Our efforts need your assistance, we are one, yet together we are many, who deserve to have our lives back.  Gainful and meaningful employment is a stepping stone but a career is what we strive to regain.  We don?t ask that you level the playing field, we just want the opportunity to play. Here is the start of the text of an e-mail I received asking me to spotlight this website in conjunction with an effort to generate support for a federal bill to enable expungement of a federal conviction: I am writing to solicit your organization's support on behalf of the thousands of young men and women who, having been convicted of a Federal Felony and, regardless of the sentence handed down by the courts and having ?paid their debt to society?, are also being handed a hidden life sentence that is not a part of any judicial proceeding...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 04, 2009 (boomark / email).