Colleen Chien spoke with Professor JJ Prescott and Rebecca Vallas of the Center for American Progress about her “important and eye-opening” work that “has been fueling state momentum to make criminal record-clearing automatic for everyone who’s eligible.” Listen here and check out Professor Chien’s new initiative: www.paperprisons.org.
“Colleen Chien’s research ‘has been fueling state momentum to make criminal record-clearing automatic for everyone who’s eligible, instead of just the lucky few who can afford to hire a lawyer.’ Her research is ‘so important and eye-opening. For starters, we’ve got somewhere between 25-30 million people around this country and that’s a conservative estimate who under current law are already eligible to get records cleared but have not been able to for one reason or another.’ “