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ELIZA DEWEY

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.

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ELIZA DEWEY July 10, 2025
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LUCY SPANGLER

PRESERVING HEALTH EQUITY IN ROXBURY

How Locally Owned Pharmacies Are Addressing Pharmacy Deserts On January 31, Walgreens closed its location at 416 Warren St. in Roxbury’s Grove Hall neighborhood, the fourth Boston location to close since late 2022. The shutdown has forced customers to transfer their prescriptions to another location further away and find a

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LUCY SPANGLER April 5, 2024
DAN ATKINSON & JEAN TROUNSTINE

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

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DAN ATKINSON & JEAN TROUNSTINE January 12, 2024
ANA GONI-LESSAN

SEX, DRUGS, AND FENTANYL

Among the nightmares of an unprecedented epidemic, sex work gets more dangerous for opioid addicts

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ANA GONI-LESSAN August 17, 2019
JASON PRAMAS

GREENFIELD BLUES

Homelessness is not just a big-city problem in Mass

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JASON PRAMAS August 7, 2018

THE VERTEX SHELL GAME

Vertex Headquarters. Photo ©2015 Derek Kouyoumjian Pharma’s Donation to Boston, Other Cities Converts Public Funds to PR Gold October 24, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   Vertex Pharmaceuticals made a big PR splash last week with an announcement of a significant donation to Boston and other cities where it does

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JASON PRAMAS October 24, 2017

TOWNIE: A WORM’S EYE VIEW OF THE MASS POWER STRUCTURE+

Students at rally at Boston City Hall by NewtonCourt (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons From the guy that brings you Apparent Horizon October 18, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   The rich and powerful interests that control Massachusetts politics and the state economy have their fingers in

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JASON PRAMAS October 18, 2017

HARD DRUG TRUTHS: END MANDATORY MINIMUM DRUG SENTENCES

January 10, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS The opioid crisis is dire enough without adding insult to injury. With almost 12,000 deaths from overdoses in Massachusetts since the year 2000—increasing sharply in recent years with fentanyl-laced heroin hitting the streets—the human cost to users, their families, and our communities is

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JASON PRAMAS January 10, 2017
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