Reentry, Clemency and White Collar Justice
Reentry, clemency and white collar justice is one of Biography Wiki's developed subject areas. This index collects the people documented here who work in that field: defence attorneys and prosecutors, legal scholars, clemency experts, reentry advocates, and people who have served federal sentences and built a second career afterward.
The emphasis is on the person and the whole career, not the case. Where a subject's prosecution is documented, it is stated precisely and sourced; it is not the reason the entry exists.
Legal practice and scholarship
- Rachel Barkow, Vice Dean at NYU School of Law, former U.S. Sentencing Commission member and Supreme Court law clerk
- Mark Osler, law professor and clemency scholar who founded the first law school clemency clinic
- Karen Kelly, tax attorney and former head of the U.S. Justice Department's Tax Division
- Alex Little, federal criminal defense attorney and former Assistant U.S. Attorney
- Doug Passon, sentencing and mitigation specialist
Research
- Erin Frey, Yale School of Management, researching professional restoration after career-disrupting events
Advocacy and reform
- Louis L. Reed, criminal justice reform organiser and founder of We Are All Criminals
- Amy K. Nelson, lawyer and advocate writing on families navigating white collar prosecution
- Brian Cuban, author of The Addicted Lawyer and recovery advocate
- Tony Dominguez, certified interventionist and recovery coach
Second careers after a federal sentence
- Adam Bentley Clausen, sentenced to 213 years in 2001, released after more than two decades, now advising the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Sentencing Impact Advisory Group
- P.G. Sittenfeld, former Cincinnati City Council member, pardoned in 2025, writer
- Ron Bauer, venture capitalist who works with justice-impacted founders
The Tuesday Night Speaker Series
Many of the people above presented to the White Collar Support Group Tuesday Night Speaker Series, run monthly by Progressive Prison Ministries. The full archive of recaps is published at prisonist.org.