But in May 2005, when Healey spoke at a public forum sponsored by the Boston Foundation about CORI reform, she sounded an awful lot like Patrick -- and like a number of criminal justice experts who recognize that the CORI system is sometimes inaccurate and often indecipherable....
"We need to take an active interest in making sure that the 20,000 men and women who are leaving our jails and prisons each year have jobs and have housing." She went on: "One of the concerns around that is the impact of CORI on offenders' ability to get housing and employment -- the key legs of the stool, if you will, to post-release success."
From those comments, Healey sounded more like Patrick's running mate than his opponent. Yesterday, Patrick summed up his position: "... we expect that after the debt is paid, people will rejoin productive society. And that means people need to get a job. They need to be able to get an apartment...."
In 2005, Healey raised concerns about the inaccuracies and difficulty in interpreting CORI records and agreed in part with reforms proposed by the Crime and Justice Institute, a Boston-based research group.
Don't forget, folks - Dr. Healey's got a Ph.D. in crime! She's even written four books academic "white papers" about it! She must be an expert.
