{"id":514,"date":"2013-06-18T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2022-05-09T22:53:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T02:53:49","slug":"ma-innocence-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/18\/ma-innocence-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass. Legislature should pass Innocence Commission bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just submitted a letter to the <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Committees\/Joint\/J19\">Massachusetts Joint Committee on the Judiciary<\/a> in support of <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/188\/House\/H1638\">Bill H. 1638<\/a>, &#8220;An Act to establish the Massachusetts innocence commission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The experience of incarceration has a profound and lasting negative impact on any person\u2019s life. Passing H. 1638 would be an important step to ensure that innocent people are kept out of the Massachusetts justice system. Furthermore, conviction errors not only destroy lives, but they also waste precious tax dollars that should instead be used to invest in the future by keeping communities safe and healthy.<\/p>\n<p>There is no question that the criminal justice system will make mistakes. The question is whether Massachusetts will put in place a system to ensure that we learn from those mistakes and make wrongful convictions less likely in the future.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Want to get involved? The Massachusetts Conference of United Church of Christ Innocence Commission Task Team is doing great organizing to support this important bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just submitted a letter in support of Bill H. 1638, \u201cAn Act to establish the Massachusetts innocence commission.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[13],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13683,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/13683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}