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Inbox: Legislation To Protect Vote for Eligible Incarcerated Voters on Baker’s Desk

Written by DIG STAFF Posted June 22, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

"The VOTES Act’s jail-based voting provisions will require sheriffs, DOC, and Secretary of Commonwealth facilitate voting for the 7-9,000 incarcerated eligible voters in Mass"

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Charlie Baker, criminal justice reform, Massachusetts, prison

DAY-LONG HEARING ON CORRECTIONS SEES PLEAS FOR FREE CALLS AND AN END TO LIFE W/OUT PAROLE

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted October 7, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

150-plus Advocates testify about “broken” Mass criminal legal system

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Beacon Hill, corrections, criminal justice reform, Mass DOC, Massachusetts, news, news to us, parole, Politics, prison

RADICAL RE-ENTRY: INNER CITY WEIGHTLIFTING

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted August 31, 2021 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Creating community and value for people who society has otherwise denied the opportunity

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: criminal justice reform, doc, features, news, news to us, prison

A STATE REP GOES TO SPEAK WITH MEN INCARCERATED AT OLD COLONY

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted June 11, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

A follow-up to our feature about suicide attempts, self-harm, and COVID at the Bridgewater state prison

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: criminal justice reform, features, Mass DOC, news, news to us, prisons

WHY ARE HALF OF MASS CORRECTION OFFICERS REFUSING THE COVID VACCINE?

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted February 14, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Even as the pandemic rages in prisons, vaccines and masks are seen as “a sign of weakness”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: criminal justice reform, Mass DOC, news, news to us, pandemic, Pandemic Democracy Project, Prison Reform, prisons

MASS KEEPS TRYING TO BUILD A NEW WOMEN’S PRISON OUTSIDE OF PUBLIC VIEW

Written by DAN ATKINSON Posted February 8, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

"When you talk about building new prisons, you are putting out the message that those of us that live in these communities that you are intending future generations to be in those beds”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: criminal justice reform, Mass DOC, news, news to us, prisons

MASS TO HOLD FIRST COMMUTATION HEARING IN 10 YEARS, BUT PRESS AND PUBLIC CAN’T WATCH

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted October 22, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

While members of the public can listen in on this hearing for Thomas Koonce without seeing it, they are unable to record the hearing

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: criminal justice reform, news, news to us, parole, prison

SPECIAL FEATURE: REVOCATION NATION

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted September 15, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The epidemic of reincarceration for technical parole violations in the age of COVID

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacn Hill, coronavirus, COVID, criminal justice reform, doc, Pandemic Democracy Fund, parole, prison, Solutions Journalism Network

CHANGING PERCEPTION, CHANGING THE LAW

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted March 3, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES

What Mass lawmakers can learn about parole from the battle to end death by incarceration across the country. “To see the transformation of those who have caused harm is important for those who have been harmed.”

Filed Under: FEATURES Tagged With: Activism, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, California, corrections, criminal justice reform, doc, Jean Trounstine, LWOP, Massachusetts, New York, parole, prison, RAPP, Solutions Journalism Network, The Sentencing Project, Vermont

IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS FOR A BROKEN PAROLE SYSTEM

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted March 3, 2020 Filed Under: Dear Reader

Dear Reader,

In the process of editing this week’s cover feature by Jean Trounstine, a collaboration with the  ...  read more

Filed Under: Dear Reader Tagged With: Activism, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, California, corrections, criminal justice reform, doc, Jean Trounstine, LWOP, Massachusetts, New York, parole, prison, RAPP, Solutions Journalism Network, The Sentencing Project, Vermont

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