REVOCATION NATION: REINCARCERATION FOR TECHNICAL PAROLE VIOLATIONS IN THE AGE OF COVID-19
…$80 parole fee and putting food on the table. He worried that if he got pulled over for speeding, a warning would go straight to his parole officer (PO). Like…
THE DYSFUNCTIONAL MASS PAROLE BOARD’S INEVITABLE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Left: A packed briefing on parole issues at the Massachusetts State House (Jan. 2020). Photo by Jean Trounstine. Right: Parole Board Chair Gloriann Moroney at her parole confirmation hearing before…
THE MASS PAROLE BOARD HAS A TRANSPARENCY PROBLEM
…why. An example is Arthur Bembury, who was paroled from a second-degree murder sentence in 2005 and placed on lifetime parole (as are all who earn parole on a parole-eligible…
DAY-LONG HEARING ON CORRECTIONS SEES PLEAS FOR FREE CALLS AND AN END TO LIFE W/OUT PAROLE
…deserve parole while those serving a first-degree life sentence (except for juveniles) receive a sentence of life with no parole eligibility. Currently, 1059 people are serving life without parole in…
THE BEST OF BINJ: PRISON & PAROLE REPORTING
…Bay State The Mass Parole Board Has A Transparency Problem (December 20, 2021) By Jean Trounstine From secret hiring practices to a revolving door of political appointees, the Mass Parole…
MORE DYSFUNCTION THAN DIVERSITY
…a year of parole supervision is less than $10,000. (Parole reported an annual cost of $5,000 in 2013.) Research has shown that states that allow people on parole to stay…
DANCING ON BANANA PEELS
…70-page parole termination packet was spearheaded by his parole officer (PO) and the PO’s boss, who both concurred Mustafa’s many years on parole were enough. Although his paperwork elaborated on…
MORALE VIOLATION
…serving as Santa’s deputy chief, a job she was appointed to after being an entry-level parole officer called a “transitional parole officer” (TPO). Wetherbee now supervises all the institutional parole…
CHANGING PERCEPTION, CHANGING THE LAW
…January 2018, after 38 years, four previous parole board denials, and having mentored hundreds of men inside. The parole board is a major focal point of RAPP. “New York’s parole…
BINJ SELECTED FOR SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK ‘RENEWING DEMOCRACY’ GRANT, EXPANDS SCOPE OF PRISON & PAROLE REPORTING
…the system. In two features produced earlier this year—one about the fight against life without parole (LWOP) sentencing, and another piece detailing the dysfunction of the parole board in Mass—Trounstine…