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Mass Is Still Gouging Prisoners On Phone Fees. Will Lawmakers Finally Change That?

Written by ASHLEY PETTUS Posted April 11, 2022 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.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Department of Correction, feature, features, jail, Mass DOC, news, prison

INNOVATIVE REENTRY: THE FOCUS OF THOMAS KOONCE’S PAROLE HEARING 

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted March 26, 2022 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.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Mass DOC, news, Parole Board

DAY-LONG HEARING ON CORRECTIONS SEES PLEAS FOR FREE CALLS AND AN END TO LIFE W/OUT PAROLE

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted October 7, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

150-plus Advocates testify about “broken” Mass criminal legal system

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Beacon Hill, corrections, criminal justice reform, Mass DOC, Massachusetts, news, news to us, parole, Politics, prison

A STATE REP GOES TO SPEAK WITH MEN INCARCERATED AT OLD COLONY

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted June 11, 2021 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

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: criminal justice reform, features, Mass DOC, news, news to us, prisons

A YEAR OF DISASTER AT OLD COLONY: SUICIDE ATTEMPTS, SELF-HARM, AND COVID

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted May 3, 2021 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.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: COVID, Department of Correction, Mass DOC, Pandemic Democracy Project, parole, prison

WHY ARE HALF OF MASS CORRECTION OFFICERS REFUSING THE COVID VACCINE?

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted February 14, 2021 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”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: criminal justice reform, Mass DOC, news, news to us, pandemic, Pandemic Democracy Project, Prison Reform, prisons

MASS KEEPS TRYING TO BUILD A NEW WOMEN’S PRISON OUTSIDE OF PUBLIC VIEW

Written by DAN ATKINSON Posted February 8, 2021 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”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: criminal justice reform, Mass DOC, news, news to us, prisons

INSIDE THE FIGHT TO DOCUMENT THE HORRORS AT AMERICA’S OLDEST WOMEN’S PRISON

Written by SHELBY GREBBIN AND ISHA MARATHE Posted December 17, 2020 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.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Mass DOC, parole, Politics, prison

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE QUIET ONE

Written by Posted November 26, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

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.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Boston, Boston Police, Boston Police Department, BPD, corrections, criminal justice, Dan Conley, doc, Fred Clay, hypnosis, incarceration, jail, Jon Kater, law enforcement, lawyers, LWOP, Mass DOC, parole, Police, prison, prosecutorial corruption, Sean Ellis, Suffolk County District Attorney

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

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