In addition to reporting on police misconduct and state weapons procurement, BINJ is investigating inefficiency in the state’s antiquated parole system and impugning Commonwealth jails using public information requests among other methods.
Here are some examples of the kind of reporting we are asking you to get behind:
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Will New Bedford finally find out what happened to Malcolm Gracia?
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The Bay State has a fraught history of sentencing people to serve life without parole. Now lawmakers have a chance to end the bad deal Beacon Hill made to trade the death penalty for natural life sentences.
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Gun laws, limits, and licensing in Mass—in perception and reality
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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?