Don’t Lose Sight Of These Massachusetts Issues Through The National Shitstorm

…headlines and hashtags. In addition to prison, parole, and the opioid crisis, which we faithfully report on year after year, topics like these … Police in general As I write…
BEYOND ENGAGEMENT

…municipal election. Almost everything we saw could be applied to issues and reporting in Boston. In our ongoing efforts to document the prison and parole gauntlet in Mass, we will…
The Waiting Game: Thousands Of Mass Prisoners Are Stuck On Education Waitlists

…per year in the Massachusetts fiscal budget by creating pathways for elder parole, White said. Incarcerated elders are both the least likely population to recidivate and the most costly population…
INNER CITY WEIGHTLIFTING CREATES COMMUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO SOCIETY HAS OTHERWISE DENIED THE OPPORTUNITY

…like a family. And my friends are here with me.” This article was published in DigBoston and is part of Jean Trounstine’s ongoing coverage of prisons and parole in Massachusetts….
A New Book From BINJ Prison Reporter Jean Trounstine

We are excited to help announce that longtime BINJ prison and parole reporter Jean Trounstine is releasing her eighth book and first novel, “Sounds Like Trouble to Me.” It is…
THE BEST OF BINJ: HOUSING & GENTRIFICATION REPORTING

…& Surveillance; Prisons & Parole; Transit; Environment; Politics & Government Accountability; Immigrant Communities; Music, Arts & Sports; LGBTQIA+; Opioids & Other Drugs; Massachusetts History. We are posting these compendiums by…
THE BEST OF BINJ: LABOR REPORTING

…parsed them into 13 categories: Education; Labor; Housing & Gentrification; Police & Surveillance; Prisons & Parole; Transit; Environment; Politics & Government Accountability; Immigrant Communities; Music, Arts & Sports; LGBTQIA+; Opioids…
THE BEST OF BINJ: EDUCATION REPORTING

…& Surveillance; Prisons & Parole; Transit; Environment; Politics & Government Accountability; Immigrant Communities; Music, Arts & Sports; LGBTQIA+; Opioids & Other Drugs; Massachusetts History. We are posting these compendiums by…
CAMBRIDGE UNHOUSED

…everything we cover at the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism ends in homelessness. Environmental injustice. Prison, re-entry, parole. The opioid epidemic. Institutional racism. The affordable housing crisis. When society fails…
LAWMAKERS AND ADVOCATES PUSH FOR MORE COVID-19 DATA FROM PRISONS

…and if they have been approved for parole. The information would be posted on the Department of Public Health’s website once a week. Fight for data in the courts Domb…