Ideologically supported by the rehabilitative ideal, restorative justice, and the ongoing national offender reentry movement, the Second Chance Act was passed by US Congress in 2007 to minimize both adult and juvenile offender recycling through the justice systems. This entry observes the short history...
SECOND CHANCE: ESTABLISHING A REENTRY PROGRAM IN THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS Moran Second Chance Program in the Northern District of Illinois. It recalls that then President George W. Bush signed into law the Second Chance Act in 2008 which seeks to break the recidivism cycle by providing...