Charlie Rosario earned his BA behind bars in 2022. As he explained in a recent interview, he was part of the first Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI) college cohort, at the time located at MCI-Concord, which closed in 2024.…
A little more than two years after Gov. Maura Healey signed the sweeping Act Modernizing Firearm Laws, residents will have an opportunity to vote on whether to retain or scrap the comprehensive legislation. The effort to loosen gun…
(Special to BINJ.News) - Massachusetts residents will vote next month on whether employees at the Committee for Public Counsel Services—the state agency for public defenders and the social workers who support them—can collectively bargain. Public defenders, who provide…
So-called public records are rarely easy to obtain. That’s especially true in Massachusetts, which is demonstrably one of the least transparent states in multiple regards. In the commonwealth, even when a document or data point is technically public,…
This story contains descriptions of violence. Readers looking to avoid these descriptions may skip the ‘Eyewitness accounts’ section. You can read the author’s prior coverage of the Shacoby Kenny killing here. Shacoby Kenny’s mother has carried the pain…
A DAF, a donor-advised fund, is “a charitable giving vehicle administered by a public charity created to manage charitable donations on behalf of organizations, families, or individuals,” according to Wikipedia. Put another way, it’s a mini foundation that…
Back then, we did what many said couldn’t be done. Now, we’re doing what we said we wouldn’t do.*
