2008

6/12/08 Governor Patrick convened a working group in September to study possible changes to the Commonwealth's current Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) system...MORE

6/12/08
CJPC Co-Sponsored NASW Conference "Sexual Offending: Prevention and Management for Families, Agencies and Communities"

6/12/08 Action Alert: Treatment of Prisoners with Mental Illness

6/12/08 "Even people who believe that prisons exist solely for punishment should not abide a system that forces prisoners with diagnosable mental illnesses to spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, where they grow crazier, more desperate and more dangerous by the day." --editorial in The Boston Globe: "Prison, The New Madhouse" Dec.10, 2007... MORE

1/11/08 Governor Patrick issues Executive Order and Proposed Legislation to Reform CORI system. Read the Press Release Here

2/26/08 Judiciary Hearing On Sex Offender Bills

3/18/08 Click here for Governor Patrick’s CORI testimony before the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee in support of his own bill for CORI reform.

4/9/08 New Commissioner of the Mass. DOC, Harold Clarke visited Concord.

2007

11/7/07 CORI Working Group Announces Public Hearing.

Following Up on the September 18 Judiciary Committee Hearing

New Executive Director Joins CJPC

Public Safety Act 2007-2008 and other Re-Entry Legislation

Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Reform News: New Boston Globe Article from 4/15/07

Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Reform News: New Boston Globe Article from 4/15/07

Proposed DOC Regulations, prisoner classification regulations and analysis

Proposed DOC Regulations, prisoner classification regulations and analysis

Action Alert To Pass CORI Reform Bill H2874

Action Alert To Pass S.929

Coalition to Increase Access to Addiction Treatment Lobby Day

UPDATE: 11/22 Hearing On CORI REFORM Bill H. 2874
AND S. 929 Parole Eligibility/Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Reform

Action Alert:
PSA 2006 Provisions at Stake in Budget Conference Committee

UPDATE: CORI Reform and Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Reform advocates unite to pass the Public Safety Act of 2006!