Protesters rallied outside South Bay House of Correction last Friday, calling again for justice in the December killing of Shacoby Kenny. (Read prior BINJ coverage here). Kenny’s death was ruled a homicide by the state medical examiner’s office…
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.*
