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  • How To Spread The Stimulus: More Massachusetts residents are experiencing the heavy weight of empty pockets. Competition for jobs has more than doubled over the past year, and unemployment rates are pushing 8 percent. Frustration is especially high… (read more)
  • Breaking Bars to Jobs: Today, Patrick will unveil his plan to overhaul the state’s Criminal Offender Record Information law, better known as CORI. The administration has mapped out its approach largely behind closed doors… (read more)
  • For Ex-Offenders, CORI Law Not Working: At a time when residents of high-crime neighborhoods are on edge over the plague of gang and gun violence, Mayor Thomas Menino ventured up to Beacon Hill this month to lobby on behalf of the city’s ne’er-do-wells. The mayor was there to testify at a Judiciary Committee hearing in favor of a bill to limit employer access to criminal records. While some might say Menino should focus his energies on law-abiders, not lawbreakers, he is driven as much by a concern for the former as the latter… (read more)
  • Senate To Take Up Crime Records: Horace Small, executive director of the Union of Minority Neighborhoods and a proponent of CORI reform, said he would prefer sealing records after seven years for felony convictions and three years for misdemeanor convictions; studies have shown that former inmates who stay clean that long are unlikely to commit new crimes…(read more)
The formerly incarcerated still struggle to find work– The Boston Globe, March 22nd, 2017

“But poor blacks did benefit from the fact that there was a black man in the White House less than 100 years after we were hanging from trees,” Horace Small said.



“But poor blacks did benefit from the fact that there was a black man in the White House less than 100 years after we were hanging from trees,” Horace Small said.