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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 5, 2020 By BINJ ONLINE

JOIN US FOR A VIRTUAL EVENT ABOUT “TECHNICAL PAROLE VIOLATIONS” AND MASS INCARCERATION

How is this adding to mass incarceration and what does this mean during a pandemic?

Filed Under: Events, Pandemic Democracy Project Tagged With: COVID, incarceration, Mass DOC, Pandemic Democracy Project, parole, prisons, solutions, Upcoming Events

May 19, 2020 By JEAN TROUNSTINE

REMOTE JUSTICE: ON TRIAL IN ZOOM COURT DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Zoom Court

“It’s impossible to advocate for someone [in court] over the telephone. … Anything you say or your client says is heard by everyone.”

Filed Under: Features, Pandemic Democracy Project, Reports Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID, criminal justice, features, Mass DOC, news, news to us, parole, prisoners, prisons, slider

March 21, 2020 By JEAN TROUNSTINE

MASSACHUSETTS COVID-19 DECARCERATION BILL COULD PROTECT US ALL

Coronavirus prisons Massachusetts

“This call for releases is not the advocacy community trying to capitalize on an opportunity to decarcerate … Prison health care is already overstressed and a lack of response will absolutely kill people.”

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, criminal justice, features, jails, Mass DOC, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Department of Correction, quarantine

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