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MA: Don't block people with criminal records in finding employment

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Op-Ed Don?t block reformed criminals? job efforts By Sonia Chang-Díaz and Jeffrey Brown February 20, 2010 The Boston Globe THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate in Massachusetts hovers at 9 percent. In urban neighborhoods across the Commonwealth, that rate is sometimes more than double, with some estimates as high as 24 percent. These numbers have an obvious and painful impact on the economic stability of a neighborhood, and they also impact our safety. With more residents pushed into joblessness, and in some cases homelessness, crime rates go up in our communities. This has always been the case, but is even more so during a recession. That?s why the Commonwealth must act now to take down unnecessary barriers to employment. That?s why we can?t wait any longer for reform of our broken CORI system...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 23, 2010 (boomark / email).