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.…
Angela Jefferson (left) and her daughter, Shanita. Photo courtesy of Families for Justice as Healing New report shows 1/6 of women in Mass prisons sentenced to life without parole. “The fear of the unknown is what I feel…
“What is the Somerville Wire,” the school reopening plan, and a new life science building. Welcome to the Somerville Wire’s third Weekly Roundup—a fast look at local news published every Tuesday at somervillewire.news. Readers with Somerville-focused news tips…
(Somerville Wire) - Aside from the brief introduction at the top of our somervillewire.news web page, we haven’t really explained what the Somerville Wire is and why we’ve just launched it. So I thought it was worth giving…
An incident prompts scrutiny, while councilors struggle with the fairness of the hiring system. (Somerville Wire) - Five councilors on the Confirmation of Appointments and Personnel Matters committee interviewed three candidates for the police reserve list in Somerville,…
Defending the decision to keep capacities low, Curtatone calls the governor's approach "blood calculus." (Somerville Wire) - The city of Somerville decided not to join the rest of the Commonwealth in raising capacity limits on February 8. This…
Back then, we did what many said couldn’t be done. Now, we’re doing what we said we wouldn’t do.*
