In December, the Supreme Judicial Court Task Force on Judicial Hiring issued its sixth and final report, completing an exhaustive year-long review of hiring and promotion practices in all of the judicial branch. These reports mark a major, and potentially transformative, turning point in how the judiciary hires and oversees the thousands of employees in locations all over the Commonwealth charged with delivering fair, equal, and accessible justice. […]
Scot Harshbarger
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Improving the re-entry of ex-inmates is essential to reducing crime
In “Approaching Reentry” (CW, Summer ’05), crime expert Jeremy Travis spoke at length about the problem of inmates returning to society. As former district attorney of Middlesex County, state attorney general, and in my current capacity as chairman of the Department of Correction Advisory Council, I view the issue of returning inmates as one of […]