Community Legal Aid’s CORI/Re-entry work focuses on helping people with criminal records overcome barriers to housing, employment, and other opportunities. Our attorneys provide representation in CORI sealing and expungement cases, criminal record-related denials of public and subsidized housing, and employment or educational/job training program denials due to a criminal record. The criminalization of poverty, substance use, and mental illness, and the over-policing of communities of color, result in a cycle of incarceration and other forms of state supervision that are incredibly destructive for families and communities. The CORI unit is dedicated to combatting the civil consequences of the criminal court system.