Knights Of The Wicked Dark Ages
Medieval beatdowns with Boston’s North Horde, the region’s fearless armored combat and steel fighting paladins
Beyond Boston: Fighting Poverty And Prison With College In Worcester
Prison education in Massachusetts: Inside Clark University’s program to leverage education’s proven power to cut recidivism
Gun Violence Prevention Grant Puts Opioid Settlement Funds Back In Communities
The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office is spending its settlement funds from the consulting giant McKinsey on nonprofits working on gun violence prevention, urban farming, and
Hard Lessons From The Failed Campaign To Regulate Psychedelics In Massachusetts
Under-trained staff and mixed messaging: Why Massachusetts’ historic psychedelics bill collapsed
How MassArt’s Divestment Organizing ‘Met An Edge’
Efforts to enforce a late 2024 divestment policy stalled, leading to a fateful two minutes when a student protest entered a building
No Opioid Settlement Funds Going To Massachusetts Prisons
The commonwealth will receive more than a billion dollars for opioid remediation—none of it is for the state’s most vulnerable drug-dependent population
This Company Paid Massachusetts Opioid Settlement Funds, And Has Had Millions In State Contracts Since
The consulting giant McKinsey continued its work advising Mass on healthcare and other matters after paying for “illegal and dangerous partnership with Purdue Pharma”
The Battle Over The Newest Member Of The Massachusetts Parole Board
Will former chief parole supervisor Angelo Gomez help or hurt the overburdened board? Some say he is “the right man” and dedicated to “support not
Has The Inhumane And Costly Massachusetts Prison Health Care System Improved Under New Management?
The state’s last prison health care contract brought despair and congressional scrutiny. Our investigation indicates that the new vendor is off to a troubling start.
“Ain’t Nobody Helping Me.” More Calls For Reforms To Massachusetts Wrongful Conviction Compensation Law
Legal advocates have said the Massachusetts system for compensating victims of wrongful convictions is unfair. Here’s their plan to fix it.
Whistleblowers Claim 2024 Psychedelics Ballot Initiative Violated Campaign Finance Laws
Two staffers of the Yes on 4 psychedelics ballot initiative in Massachusetts filed complaints alleging violations of campaign finance law.
“They Took My Life Away For Nothing.”
James Carver spent 36 years in prison after he was convicted of setting one of the deadliest fires in Massachusetts history. But after reviewing new
Mass Municipalities Are Sitting On Millions Meant To Mitigate The Opioid Scourge
In some cases, our investigation found cities and towns using opioid abatement dollars to fund law enforcement
BINJ WRITER TALKS CHARLES TAYLOR ON “THE BIG TRUTH” PODCAST
Listen to writer Nate Homan tell the story of an infamous West African warlord’s Bay State jailbreak
RESEARCHING THE MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR’S COUNCIL
New series by Jean Trounstine includes original data set on Massachusetts judicial appointments culled from hundreds of paper files
BINJ IMPUGNS NO-BID CONTRACT PROPOSED FOR DAVID ORTIZ-TIED BIZ
A feature that involves one of the great Boston pro sports heroes of modern time, plus is squarely in line with a realm of reporting
BINJ REPORTER LEADING PSYCHEDELICS COVERAGE IN MASS
Benzinga, Double Blind, and others follow up on Jack Gorsline’s reporting on the upcoming Bay State ballot initiative
EFF AMPLIFIES CELL-SITE SIMULATOR INVESTIGATION
BINJ article provided “some of the most comprehensive information about modern CSS that the public has had access to in years.”
DIAMONDS & GUNS
The untold story of Charles Taylor’s time in the Bay State, the crimes he committed, and the prison he escaped from before ransacking Liberia and
DIAMONDS & GUNS
The untold story of Charles Taylor’s time in the Bay State, the crimes he committed, and the prison he escaped from before ransacking Liberia and
AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK
The only prisoner to make a clean getaway from the Plymouth County House of Correction is also the first world leader convicted of international war
TRAGEDY STILL LINGERS OVER LAWRENCE
A Merrimack Valley Natural Gas Explosion Time Capsule Putting the extensive damage done in focus five years after a preventable fatal disaster disrupted northeast Massachusetts
UNPRECEDENTED TESTIMONY
Prisoners Are Front And Center At Historic Legislative Hearing “It has been proven that these life without parole sentences aren’t improving anything in our communities
THE SEVEN YEARS WAR
Boston police used their fusion center to surveil my journalistic actions. It took nearly seven years for BPD to hold itself somewhat accountable, and only