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JEAN TROUNSTINE

ADVOCATES SUE, ARGUE IMMEDIATE DECARCERATION NEEDED TO SAVE LIVES 

To keep people locked up despite the looming threat of coronavirus, officials are claiming prisoners lack community ties. Advocates and family members say that’s not the case. 

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JEAN TROUNSTINE April 2, 2020
JEAN TROUNSTINE

CHANGING PERCEPTION, CHANGING THE LAW

What Mass lawmakers can learn from the battle to end death by incarceration across the country

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JEAN TROUNSTINE March 4, 2020
OLIVIA DENG

FLAW PATROL

“Increased patrols do not protect anyone … they are actively harmful to poor and oppressed people who are routinely harassed, brutalized, and surveilled by the police in Boston and across the country.”

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OLIVIA DENG January 28, 2020
ARNIE KING

FACING THE END ALONE

The second in a series profiling aging lifers seeking commutations from Mass prisons This is the second installment of Rolling Along as Long as It Lasts, a series of profiles and interviews from inside the Massachusetts Department of Correction. Published in coordination with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, the series is

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ARNIE KING May 23, 2017
ARNIE KING

GEORGE IS READY

The first installment of Rolling Along as Long as It Lasts, a series of profiles and interviews from inside the Massachusetts Department of Correction.  George McGrath has been inside Massachusetts prisons for a very long time, due to his being convicted as the getaway driver in a Jamaica Plain drugstore

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ARNIE KING April 10, 2017
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