New student initiative spreads awareness on marijuana criminal record expungement in New Jersey
At the start of the fall semester, Kennedy Mattes ’23 founded an expungement initiative as an outgrowth of Students for Prison Education, Abolition, and Reform (SPEAR), a student group that has led a wide range of criminal justice related campus protests — from University divestment from private prisons, to “ban the box,” a movement to eliminate the conviction history question from undergraduate applications.