🇺🇸 USA 1d ago · Joe Broadmeadow

What’s one of the best public safety tools? A clean record

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What’s one of the best public safety tools? A clean record
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Rhode Island now enables people with criminal records to qualify for expungement of up to four felonies, but only for nonviolent offenses and not until 15 years after they have completed their final sentence. (Getty photo)He committed a nonviolent felony 15 years ago: a bad check, a possession charge, a stolen car he was dumb enough to ride in at 22. He served his sentence. He paid his fines. He hasn’t been arrested since. He did exactly what we told him to do.
Now he’s 40, and every

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