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An Act to Reduce Mass Incarceration

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE FIGHT FOR LIFE IN MASSACHUSETTS

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted May 23, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

The Bay State has a fraught history of sentencing people to serve life without parole. Now lawmakers have a chance to end the bad deal Beacon Hill made to trade the death penalty for natural life sentences.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: #mapoli, An Act to Reduce Mass Incarceration, death in slow motion, first-degree murder, harsh sentencing, juvenile lifers, Life Without Parole, LWOP, Massachusetts, murder, other death penalty, other death sentence, parole eligibility, Prison Legal News, punishment, Slattery, victims

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