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DAN ATKINSON

INSIDE THE BATTLE OVER A NEW WOMEN’S PRISON FOR MASSACHUSETTS

“Either they don’t have people with the right expertise in charge of this process, making very embarrassing bumbles, or you literally are trying to circumvent the process.”

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DAN ATKINSON February 8, 2021
JORDAN FRIAS

FROM MASS TESTING TO MASS INOCULATION: A COVID RESPONSE IN THREE SCENES

Jordan Frias has reported on the response to COVID-19 through our Pandemic Democracy Project for nearly a year. Published together below, his three latest dispatches from the field show the movements of public health workers and officials on the ground, as they continue testing for coronavirus and attempt to get as many vaccines into biceps as possible.

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JORDAN FRIAS February 3, 2021
SAMANTHA HERRMANN

ARTIFICIAL TURF DEBATE INTENSIFIES, FOR SOMERVILLE LOCALS AND ADVOCATES

A park on Somerville Avenue becomes the subject of a heated argument.

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SAMANTHA HERRMANN January 29, 2021
OLIVIA DENG

“WE’RE HERE. WE GOT YOU.”

How street medics bolster protests in more ways than you may realize

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OLIVIA DENG January 19, 2021
SARAH BETANCOURT

PRISON HORRORS BY THE NUMBERS

Mass respondents shed light on COVID atrocities in new national survey

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SARAH BETANCOURT January 16, 2021
JONATHAN RILEY

SPECIAL FOLLOW-UP FEATURE: NUCLEAR FAMILY

For some with personal connections to past mistakes, the consequences of unfettered ingenuity are no more easily ignored than mushroom clouds on the horizon

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JONATHAN RILEY December 27, 2020
CLAIRE SADAR

GAINING GROUND

With Islamophobic Trump in rearview, Muslims mobilize politically

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CLAIRE SADAR December 20, 2020
DAN ATKINSON

POLITICALLY CONNECTED CONSULTANTS WIN LARGE COVID SCHOOL CONTRACTS IN MASS

Like the state government’s contract for no-bid saliva tests, the contract with McKinsey was issued without going through the standard bidding process

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DAN ATKINSON November 1, 2020
JEAN TROUNSTINE

REVOCATION NATION: REINCARCERATION FOR TECHNICAL PAROLE VIOLATIONS IN THE AGE OF COVID-19

  Jonathan Best had been out of prison for two years when he ended a rocky relationship with his girlfriend. Like many men and women on parole—a form of early release, in which the remainder of one’s sentence is served in the community—he suffered from depression and anxiety. At the

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JEAN TROUNSTINE September 15, 2020
BINJ ONLINE

DATA ANALYSIS & REPORT: THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS IN MASSACHUSETTS LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES

Why did Massachusetts’s nursing homes fail so profoundly? And how can we prevent this from happening again?

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