From violence against prisoners to our broken parole system, we are on the case. But we need your support.
Since our inception, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism has placed a high priority on reporting about issues that large news organizations ignore. It has become cliche in our industry to make such claims; still, it remains an accurate description of the current state of prison and parole coverage, especially in Massachusetts.
Other news organizations occasionally report on major tragedies and scandals that happen within the Mass Department of Correction, but we lead on this front—from Jean Trounstine’s dogged coverage of our state’s parole system, which is still in progress, to Dakota Antelman’s recent feature about the DOC’s questionable role in drug rehabilitation.
The conventional media wisdom is that articles on these subjects aren’t popular. The truth, however, is that people do want to read about these issues, and our partnership with DigBoston on this front has helped these articles reach hundreds of thousands of readers, mostly across Mass but also people from around the world.
Please continue reading and sharing these critical features, and if you are able to, we ask that you make a contribution to BINJ so that we can continue doing this important work. –Chris Faraone, Editorial Director
Mass respondents shed light on COVID atrocities in new national survey
By Sarah Betancourt
Mass move to surveil prison visitors raises First Amendment issues
By Dan Atkinson
Inside the fight to document the horrors at America’s oldest women’s prison
By Shelby Grebbin & Isha Marathe
Mass keeps trying to build a new women’s prison outside of public view
By Dan Atkinson
Follow-Up: Mass is still ignoring public input and trying to build a new women’s prison
By Dan Atkinson
Why are half of Mass correction officers refusing the vaccine?
By Jean Trounstine
DOC can barely run Zoom meeting, but wants to scan all prisoner mail
By Jean Trounstine
Commonwealth committed to “other death penalty”
By Jean Trounstine
The cruel and usual violence against LGBTQ+ people in Mass prisons
By Emma Newbery
The commitments: Addiction treatment behind bars in Massachusetts
By Dakota Antelman
