government accountability Archives

Meet The Massachusetts Advocate Challenging The Opioid Recovery Establishment

“The systems that refuse to evolve, that cling to nearly 100-year-old faith-based pseudoscience … are a huge part of why we can’t seem to solve this problem”

CHRIS FARAONE December 15, 2025

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 food access

JACOB SCHLES November 2, 2025

Five Deaths In Less Than A Month In Massachusetts Prisons

Connecting BINJ reporting on Department of Correction health care to news of multiple “medical emergencies”

CHRIS FARAONE November 1, 2025

Massachusetts Government To Procure A Chat-Based AI Assistant

Concerns raised about automating tasks with unproven technology

ZOE BEKETOVA October 27, 2025

Hard Lessons From The Failed Campaign To Regulate Psychedelics In Massachusetts

Under-trained staff and mixed messaging: Why Massachusetts’ historic psychedelics bill collapsed

NOAH DALY AND JACK GORSLINE October 16, 2025

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

CHRIS FARAONE October 7, 2025

Boston Police Deployed 71 Drone Flights Over Caribbean Carnival

New records obtained by BINJ also confirm that BPD flew a drone over this year’s Dominican Parade

ELIZA DEWEY October 2, 2025

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”

JACOB SCHLES September 21, 2025

Parole Board Questions Dying Prisoner On 30-Year-Old Murder, Not His Health

For James Ware, an extremely ill Department of Correction prisoner, a final chance at release after medical parole denial

ELIZA DEWEY September 17, 2025

New BINJ Reporting On Drones And Police Accountability

New reporting by Eliza Dewey asks if Boston police are sharing surveillance data with federal immigration officials

CHRIS FARAONE September 11, 2025