Every year, NACDL brings together advocates from around the country for our annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference. This conference offers participants an opportunity to hear from experts on state criminal justice reform and the opportunity to network with like-minded advocates.

This page provides links to NACDL's State Criminal Justice Network's monthly newsletter. The newsletter features a snapshot of NACDL's state criminal justice priorities as well as recent internal and external criminal justice reports, information on upcoming events, webinars, current state legislative reform efforts, legislative tracking, action alerts and more!

Exploring Moral Principles and Economic Innovations to Restore Rights and Opportunity

In August 2018, NACDL hosted its 17^th Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference and 2^nd Annual Presidential Summit in Atlanta, Georgia. The Conference examined the destructive effect that a vast network of penalties, debarments, and disabilities following a criminal conviction has on the millions of people who have come in contact with the criminal justice system. [Released June 2019]

The NACDL Champion of State Criminal Justice Reform Award recognizes an individual or group whose exceptional efforts have led toward progressive reform of a state criminal justice system.

Here you will find reports on state level policy reports related to mass incarceration, sentencing, incarceration rates, etc.

More information about the State Criminal Justice Network (SCJN).

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers State Criminal Justice Network is pleased to offer limited scholarships to individuals interested in attending the 19^th Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference, August 13-14, 2020 in Palm Beach, Florida.

NACDL tracks over 30 criminal justice related issues at the state level, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

NACDL's state advocacy resources that are available to affiliate and partner organizations.

SCJN Conference 2018 speaker biographies

SCJN Conference 2018 Agenda as it occurred.

Conference information and relevant materials to the panels presented at the 18th Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference, held August 1-2, 2019, in Philadelphia, PA.

The Second Chance Center, in Aurora, CO, received the Champion of State Criminal Justice Award at the SCJN Conference in 2018. Hassan Latif, the Center's executive director, accepted the award.

Barry Scheck, The Integrity of Our Convictions: Holding Stakeholders Accountable in an Era of Criminal Justice Reform, Georgetown Law Journal Annual Review of Criminal Procedure (2019). Made available for the 2019 SCJN conference.