Healey recommends pardons for 7, plans clemency reform
Gov. Maura Healey is recommending seven people be pardoned, including a Boston firefighter convicted over drugs more than 30 years ago and a retiree whose 1966 conviction of arson is preventing him from working as a nurse. All seven received unanimous recommendations for pardons from the state’s Parole Board. It’s the earliest a Massachusetts governor has recommended pardons in over...