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MA: CORI background checks should have been reformed

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

CORI background checks should have been reformed Daily Hampshire Gazette Created 08/05/2008 - 09:42 To the editor: According to some, the last legislative session may have been a success, but in reality, the Legislature failed again to reform one of the worst aspects of criminal justice policy. This time legislators came closer than usual but when HB#5004 stalled in the Judiciary Committee, Senate President Therese Murray failed to bring the bill to the Senate floor. If Senators had the opportunity to vote as their House colleagues affirmatively did, desperately needed CORI reform would have been under way. Now we must wait until January 2009 for the chance to bring some justice to an unjust system. Criminal record checks are an important part of the hiring process for many jobs: however, they should not create an insurmountable barrier to employment...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 05, 2008 (boomark / email).