Narrowed CT clean slate bill wins final passage
Kelan Lyons, CTMirror.org
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State Rep. Steven Stafstrom, D-BridgeportChristian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media
The House of Representatives voted 91-56 for final passage Thursday night of a “clean slate” bill, sending to a publicly noncommittal governor a measure that would automatically erase certain criminal convictions from a person’s record if they go seven or 10 years without committing another crime.
“This bill today is not about whether someone should face punishment or not,” said Rep. Steven Stafstrom, D-Bridgeport, co-chair of the Judiciary Committee. “What it’s about is whether someone should face the collateral consequences of punishment for a lifetime for a crime they committed at some discrete point in time.”
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Education: Notting Hill and Ealing High School; King’s College, London – LLB, 1970
Career: Trained and qualified in 1973 at Lawford & Co, London, Assistant solicitor, Darlington & Parkinson, London, 1973-74, Solicitor, Camden Community Law Centre, London, 1974-78, Assistant solicitor, Wilford McBain, London, 1978-79, Set up Children’s Legal Centre (now Coram Children’s Legal Centre), 1979-81, Assistant solicitor and then partner, Bindman & Partners, London, 1982-96, Partner, Goodman Ray, London and Brighton, 1996-2002, Consultant partner, Osbornes Law, London, 2002-
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Assembly Judiciary Committee meeting Tuesday.
The New Jersey Assembly is moving quickly to address the continuing problem of sexual assaults at the state’s only women’s prison, as well as to better the treatment of inmates throughout the corrections system.
On Tuesday, six bills cleared Assembly committees in rapid succession, poising them for final passage by the full house Thursday. Four arose from the U.S. Department of Justice’s scathing April 2020 report on sexual assaults at the Edna Mahan Women’s Correctional Facility, a daylong hearing two Assembly committees held in light of physical assaults in January that left at least two inmates seriously injured and a subsequent tour by lawmakers of the Hunterdon County prison last month.