PSYCHEDELIC STANDOFF
One side is behind the ballot initiative to regulate access to psychedelics. The other side has been advocating and organizing grassroots efforts across New England.
STINGRAYS, SIMULATORS, SURVEILLANCE, AND SILVERADOS
How Massachusetts State Police are using the opioid crisis to pursue “profound and dangerous erosions of privacy and civil liberties”
WHY WE’RE ALL GETTING SICK RIGHT NOW
What happens when public health, safety, and caution are thrown to the wind?
INDYMASS: FEBRUARY 2, 2024
A biweekly roundup of articles from the Massachusetts independent press
A “NEW HOPE”
What the Mattis decision means for parole in Massachusetts—unprecedented opportunities for release from life sentences, updated trainings for attorneys, and a big shift in the system
FARE GAME
After years of delays, the MBTA is finally about to roll out a new fare-collection apparatus. Will it only lead to more problems for the embattled agency?
INDYMASS: JANUARY 19, 2024
A new regular roundup of articles from the Massachusetts independent press
PROFITS OVER PRISONERS?
While Massachusetts seeks a contractor to provide healthcare services for people in state prisons, advocates are pushing for stronger oversight of private operators as incarcerated people describe “deplorable” neglect and mistreatment By Dan Atkinson and Jean Trounstine For the past six years, Massachusetts has paid more than half-a-billion dollars to a private, for-profit contractor to […]
AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK
How The Matriarchs Of Monrovia Stopped The Mayhem ←Click here to go back to Part V: Diamonds & Guns Exhausted from war, a unified group of Liberian Muslim and Christian women, both indigenous and elite Americo-Liberians alike, launched a nonviolent campaign for peace and protest against rampant use of rape as a weapon of war that shocked […]
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 Sierra Leone.