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? It was quite a show in Room 157 of the … [Read more...]
BINJ REPORTING HIGHLIGHTED NATIONALLY
It's never easy to get the word out about our stories as a small local reporting incubator, especially since Facebook has been blocking us from boosting posts due to what the social media site claims is the overly political nature of our work. That's … [Read more...]
THE FIGHT FOR LIFE
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. In 1997, after a string of gruesome … [Read more...]
RIGHTS, CAMERAS, EXTRACTIONS
Hampshire County has the most violent small jail in the state, and one of the least transparent At the county lockup in Northampton, corrections officers have been involved in a number of violent altercations with inmates over the past two … [Read more...]
FACING THE END ALONE
The second in a series profiling aging lifers seeking commutations from Mass prisons This is the second installment of Rolling Along as Long as It Lasts, a series of profiles and interviews from inside the Massachusetts … [Read more...]