The only prisoner to make a clean getaway from the Plymouth County House of Correction is also the first world leader convicted of international war crimes since the Nazis. This is the untold story of Charles Taylor’s time in the Bay State, the crimes he committed, and the prison he escaped from before ransacking Liberia […]
CAMBRIDGE UNHOUSED
Introducing Cambridge Unhoused Why are we blanketing one Massachusetts city in particular with focused housing crisis coverage this winter? By Chris Faraone, BINJ Editorial Director Almost everything we cover at the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism ends in homelessness. Environmental injustice. Prison, re-entry, parole. The opioid epidemic. Institutional racism. The affordable housing crisis. When society […]
TRAGEDY STILL LINGERS OVER LAWRENCE
A Merrimack Valley Natural Gas Explosion Time Capsule Putting the extensive damage done in focus five years after a preventable fatal disaster disrupted northeast Massachusetts Research and reporting by Chris Faraone, Emilia Perez, and Sophie Yarin | Interactive timeline by Zhaozhou Dai In his comments introducing new federal emergency response plans last month, US Transportation […]
FOLLOW-UP: ALLEN CURRY
Subject of BINJ feature who was victim of 1981 attack by fellow firefighters one step closer to full pension We started the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism in 2015 to report stories that weren’t being told about people who were often ignored by big media. That’s become the leading cliché offered by many who have […]
UNPRECEDENTED TESTIMONY
Prisoners Are Front And Center At Historic Legislative Hearing “It has been proven that these life without parole sentences aren’t improving anything in our communities and continue to cause harm to families as people are incarcerated.” The packed room at the State House on Tuesday, July 25, was not unusual. Nor was the fact that […]