
“Everything that I came across for 40 years has been a battle.”
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Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
“Everything that I came across for 40 years has been a battle.”
Written by ASHLEY PETTUS Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
“Even if they are providing the most rehabilitative programs available, it still wouldn’t be right to fund programs like that via the lowest income people.”
Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
“Today I am in support of a brother and friend who has been the most influential person in my life.”
Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
150-plus Advocates testify about “broken” Mass criminal legal system
Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE 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
Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
“People call saying, “I just can’t bear it.” “The walls are closing in on me; I can’t talk to my family; I’ve lost it.”
Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE 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”
Written by DAN ATKINSON 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”
Written by SHELBY GREBBIN AND ISHA MARATHE Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
The stories of the women of MCI-Framingham reveal a culture of neglect and abuse at America’s oldest women’s correctional institution.
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40 years ago this month, Fred Clay was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. After 38 years behind bars, he’s telling his story and writing another chapter.