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The Benefits of a Clean Slate in Connecticut

by Jesse Kelley

March 12, 2020

issues: Clean Slate, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Education, Housing, Jobs, Northeast, Reentry, State Policy

originally published in R Street Institute

From R Street Institute:

R Street’s Jesse Kelley testified in front of the Judiciary Committee on the benefits of a clean slate in Connecticut.

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