Second Chance Federation is a new nonprofit law firm in Charlotte built on the premise that reentry support has to be sustained, not episodic. The organization helps people with felony convictions restore voting rights, reinstate driver's licenses, and clear the legal and financial obstacles that follow people long after release.

Executive Director Daryl Atkinson, a practicing attorney with his own experience of incarceration, frames the stakes plainly: more than 19 million Americans have felony convictions, and full civic participation for that population would reshape democracy.