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MA Bar Association: MBA-backed criminal reform legislation returns for 2009-10 session

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Lawyers Journal MBA-backed criminal reform legislation returns for 2009-10 session By Kelsey Sadoff March 20, 2009 Criminal reform bills that failed to make it through last year?s legislative session are being reintroduced for the 2009-10 session with high expectations for their passage, which would usher in significant changes to the state?s criminal policies. Last year, the Massachusetts Bar Association championed reforms to both sentencing guidelines and the Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) law, but the legislation was released from committee too late to advance before the end of the 2008-09 session. Immediate Past President David W. White Jr. made sentencing and CORI reform a priority for his term, and 2008-09 President Edward W...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 21, 2009 (boomark / email).