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Advocacy for Expungement of Criminal Records
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
26 May 2023
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Black Agenda Radio · Advocacy for Expungement of Criminal Records

Jay Jordan is CEO of Alliance for Safety and Justice and he also serves as Co-Founder and National Director for the program Time Done, whose 200,000 members have advocated for more than 8 million people to seal their records and access employment and other opportunities which had been denied them. Jay Jordan joins us from New York City.

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