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.”
CHANGING PERCEPTION, CHANGING THE LAW
criminal justice reform
IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS FOR A BROKEN PAROLE SYSTEM
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In the process of editing this week’s cover feature by Jean Trounstine, a collaboration with the ...
STATE WIRE: MASS CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL AIMS TO PROTECT IN-PERSON JAIL VISITS
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.
