Springfield Entrepreneur Helps Create Second Chances Before Asiala Rivera built a freight brokerage business and launched a nonprofit focused on workforce development, she watched her father rebuild his life after incarceration. Now, the Springfield entrepreneur is trying to help others do the same. Rivera is partnering with Justice 4 Housing to launch a workforce and...

Massachusetts is Weighing a ‘Clean Slate’ Bill. Here’s what that would mean. “ always been bad — landlords using to discriminate when people are applying for housing, employers using at lower levels to discriminate against people and matters of employment,” said Noah Risley, a case...

The Massachusetts Senate Just Adopted the Clean Slate Amendment! Great news! The Massachusetts Senate adopted Senator Cindy F. Friedman’s Amendment #511 (Clean Slate) to the economic development bill!  The Clean Slate amendment will replace Massachusetts’s burdensome petition-based process with a system that automatically seals eligible criminal records once the applicable waiting period has passed. Instead...