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As Mass Reconsiders Life Without Parole For 18 To 20-year-olds, Will Race Matter?

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted February 14, 2023 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“Late adolescents are particularly likely to be sentenced based on systemic racism and implicit biases in policing, prosecution, and sentencing.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: features, Governor's Council, news, news to us, parole, prison

Exclusive: Cheryl Amirault LeFave On Reentry, Punitive Probation & Withdrawn Pardon

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted December 22, 2022 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“Everything that I came across for 40 years has been a battle.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Charlie Baker, Governor's Council, Mass DOC, Massachusetts, pardon, parole, prison, probation

Judgment On the Chopping Block In Massachusetts

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted October 17, 2022 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Parole Board Chair Gloriann Moroney’s contentious hearing to become a judge

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Baker, Beacon Hill, Governor's Council, parole

Governor’s Council Weighs Controversial Parole Board Renomination

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted August 8, 2022 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Colette Santa’s hearing brought out two supporters and 10 in opposition who testified about her performance on the board in the past five years

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Charlie Baker, Governor's Council, news, news to us, Parole Board

Unruly, Argumentative Governor’s Council Inflames Parole Board Hearings

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted June 20, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“[Their] words and actions send a clear message: don’t bother coming and don’t bother giving testimony.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, criminal justice, Governor's Council, news, news to us, parole, Parole Board, prison

GEORGE CRONIN (1937—2019)

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted July 24, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Mass has lost an incredible guy and one of the state’s great institutional memories

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, George Cronin, Governor's Council, Massachusetts, RIP, State House, west roxbury

SPECIAL FEATURE: MORE DYSFUNCTION THAN DIVERSITY

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted July 3, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

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?   

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: #mapoli, advocacy, Beacon Hill, Charlie Baker, criminal justice, Elizabeth Matos, feature, features, Governor's Council, incarceration, Mass DOC, Mass Parole Board, Massachusetts, parole, Patricia Garin, prison, Prisoners Legal Services, Right on Crime

JUDGE DREAD: SINCE YOU’RE ALREADY WORRYING ABOUT TRUMP’S APPOINTMENTS …

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted October 18, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Baker’s judicial picks include a corporate lawyer and a star DUI attorney

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Arthur Garrity Jr., Beacon Hill, Braintree, Brockton, Charlie Baker, Donald Trump, dui, Ed Sharkansky, Governor's Council, JNC, judgeship, Judicial Nominating Commission, Plymouth County, SCOTUS. POTUS. Karen F. Green, Supreme Judicial Court

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