The visitation provision is part of a much larger criminal justice reform bill. According to Lucius Couloute, policy analyst with the Prison Policy Initiative, some sheriffs’ departments around the country have eliminated in-person visiting in favor of video systems that can turn a profit, and that makes provisions like this necessary.
MASS PROSECUTORS GET REFORM SCHOOLED
Criminal justice reformers respond to Neanderthal district attorneys
SPECIAL FEATURE: FACING THE END ALONE
The second in a series profiling aging lifers seeking commutations from Mass prisons
SPECIAL FEATURE: GEORGE STRAIGHT
The first in a series profiling aging lifers seeking commutations from Mass prisons
A DEPARTURE: AFTER FOUR YEARS OF BLISTERING COLUMNS, A FREE RADICAL CHANGE
I’m glad this column has allowed me to shine a light, however small, on the ills that plague the city. But we need more voices like mine, and more willingness to take risks.
