Marijuana bill brings praise, and renewed calls for automatic expungement
"...there is no excuse to deny automatic relief from past arrest records and criminal convictions to tens of thousands of Rhode Islanders who have been victims of this failed war on cannabis," said Cherie Cruz, co-founder of the Formerly Incarcerated Union of RI. "If we’re going to repair some of the damage that has been done, we have to have automatic expungement.”