Use of force reports from the Hampden County Correctional Center reveal disproportionate use of chemical force against prisoners with psychiatric disabilities
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SPECIAL FEATURE: MORE DYSFUNCTION THAN DIVERSITY
Who oversees parole in Mass? What motivates decisions? Does the outcome help the Commonwealth? Will the addition of another career prosecutor tilt the Mass parole board away from second chances?
REVISITING A FAR CRY
With new grant, Boston’s guerilla chamber orchestra plots orchestral future
Michael Unterman is a professional concert cellist, but his morning routine is decidedly computer-based.
Most days, the musician goes straight to his laptop to answer emails and write blog posts and program notes. As a member of the Boston chamber orchestra ...
EDGE PETAL BURN: THE DARK BEAUTY OF LIFE POST-TRAUMA
Boston's own talk about how to survive past trauma and prevent future wrongs with help from their debut album.
NOCTURNAL MURAL
Artist Dan Masi spends six months painting a Goya-esque mural, entirely at night
For 260 hours under the cover of darkness, Dan Masi painted.
Over six months, entirely at night, Masi painted, combining his own artistic style with the colors and themes of Francisco Goya to create a mural that now envelopes the Lilypad collaborative ...
6,000 PROTEST SIGNS
from the 2017 Boston Women’s March preserved as an online archive
After the 2017 Boston Women’s March, thousands of participants left their protest signs around the iron fence surrounding the Boston Common Central Burying Ground. They were going to be thrown away—until three local teachers came along.
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