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: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

MA: CORI (Criminal Record) Reform Passes. (Next step lessening the time to seal reconrds)

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Criminal records bill gets House OK Would limit access to job seekers? past The Boston Globe By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | May 27, 2010 House lawmakers yesterday approved legislation long sought by Governor Deval Patrick that would limit employers? access to the criminal records of job applicants, a change that supporters said would make it easier for former convicts to find work and avoid a return to crime. Moments after the bill passed, on a 138 to 17 vote, a throng of former offenders and activists who had been watching from the House gallery spilled into the halls of the State House, cheering and chanting. The bill was a priority for many of Boston?s ministers and others who work to reintegrate former offenders into society. ?It?s so nice to have a voice that?s heard,?? said Cassandra Bensahih, an aspiring medical secretary from Worcester who said she had served six months for a drug offense...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 27, 2010 (boomark / email).