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January 16, 2021 By SARAH BETANCOURT

PRISON HORRORS BY THE NUMBERS

Mass respondents shed light on COVID atrocities in new national survey

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: corrections, criminal justics, doc, Mass DOC, prisons

October 28, 2020 By JEAN TROUNSTINE

“COMPELLING” CASE MADE IN 5-PLUS HOUR COMMUTATION HEARING

“I cannot be silent when I helped to bring about the conviction of a man for the wrong crime”

Filed Under: Reporting Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Charlie Baker, commutation, criminal justice, doc, Mass DOC, news, parole board, prison reform, Thomas Koonce

September 15, 2020 By JEAN TROUNSTINE

REVOCATION NATION: REINCARCERATION FOR TECHNICAL PAROLE VIOLATIONS IN THE AGE OF COVID-19

  Jonathan Best had been out of prison for two years when he ended a rocky relationship with his girlfriend. Like many men and women on parole—a form of early release, in which the remainder of one’s sentence is served in the community—he suffered from depression and anxiety. At the time, Best often had to […]

Filed Under: Infographics, Pandemic Democracy Project Tagged With: Beacn Hill, coronavirus, Council of State Governments, COVID, criminal justice reform, decarceration, doc, Minnesota, New York, Pandemic Democracy Fund, parole, prison, Solutions Journalism Network

June 22, 2020 By JEAN TROUNSTINE

MASS CONSIDERS LEGISLATION TO AID PRISONERS, ENCOURAGE FAMILY CONTACT

Beacon Hill prison reform

“When COVID first started, I didn’t hear from him. You don’t know what it feels like to not know if your loved one is alive or dead.”

Filed Under: Pandemic Democracy Project Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID, criminal justice reform, doc, mapoli, Mass Department of Correction, Massachusetts, news, news to us, parole board, prisons, visitation, visitation rights

April 24, 2020 By SARAH BETANCOURT

LAWMAKERS AND ADVOCATES PUSH FOR MORE COVID-19 DATA FROM PRISONS

Massachusetts prisons coronavirus

“It’s always helpful to have transparency in reporting data … Especially when we’re dealing with people’s health and safety, and when people are dying.”

Filed Under: Features, Pandemic Democracy Project Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, criminal justice, Department of Correction, doc, Health, Massachusetts, news, prison, prisoner, prisons, public health, Supreme Judicial Court

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