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MA: Organizations and Officials Call for Reform of CORI

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Changes urged to state criminal records law June 30, 2009 By Vivian Nereim, Globe Correspondent Legislators, government officials, and community organizers called today for changes to the state's criminal records law that they said would help ex-offenders reenter society, including shortening the waiting period to seal records and a simplification of the sealing process. Supporters of the changes to the Criminal Offender Record Information law, speaking at a State House rally, argued that revisions to the law would help people released from prison to find jobs and housing, reducing recidivism. "The CORI law is broken, and on a daily basis opportunity is lost," said Kevin Burke, secretary of the state Executive Office of Security and Public Safety...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 01, 2009 (boomark / email).