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MA: CORI "Reform"---"The Wait Is Also Crime"- Change is stalled again due to fearful legislators---but what are they afraid of?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The wait is also a crime By Adtian Walker Boston Globe Columnist / March 20, 2010 Despite years of protests, chatter, executive orders, and legislative proposals, Massachusetts remains a lousy place to be a former criminal offender. And despite a lot of talk emanating from the State House, there is no guarantee that this will change in the hothouse of an election year. Reform of the state?s Criminal Offenders Record Information law, better known as CORI, is stalled even though the governor, House speaker and Senate president all support it. How could a law with such high-powered support be trapped in a committee? Well, because that committee is chaired by the honorable Eugene O?Flaherty, a Chelsea Democrat who has never seen a CORI proposal he could support...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 22, 2010 (boomark / email).