Landmark California settlement limits solitary confinement statewide
Please note that by playing this clip YouTube and Google will place a long term cookie on your computer. In the struggle to bring justice to the criminal punishment system in the United States, the...
View ArticleSomerville Mayor to Middlesex DA: Drop all charges against the Somerville 18
In January 2015, 18 activists from the Boston area locked down on the region’s busiest highway, snarling traffic in both north and south lanes, to protest anti-Black racism in policing. The Middlesex...
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Riding the wave of nationwide activism, Massachusetts advocates and survivors...
The ACLU of Massachusetts’ Vira Douangmany Cage testifies about her family member spending five years in solitary confinement, as ACLU of MA Racial Justice Program Director Rahsaan Hall looks on....
View ArticleIf you can’t afford bail, you may not be able to afford a private...
Records and recordings of prisoners’ phone calls hacked from a private company’s servers and leaked to the Intercept reveal prisons and jails are recording the content of attorney-client privileged...
View ArticleAre ankle bracelets really an alternative to incarceration, or just another...
Everyone is talking about how to end mass incarceration: the right, the left, presidential candidates, Black Lives Matter activists. But what comes after a prison-centric society? Some, including...
View ArticleThe drug war: why we cannot have nice things like trains that work
It’s budget time again, and everyone is looking for ways to cut corners. When it comes to public transportation, cutting corners isn’t easy or advisable—especially in Boston, where the system already...
View ArticleHow new FBI powers to look through NSA intercepts will exacerbate mass...
The wall separating “foreign” intelligence operations from domestic criminal investigations has finally, fully collapsed. The FBI now plans to act on a rule change initiated by the Bush administration...
View ArticleReport: To protect immigrants, cities must do more than establish ‘Sanctuary’...
A new report by the Fair Punishment project at Harvard Law School, along with the Immigrant Defense Project and the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, identifies concrete policy changes cities and states...
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New poll shows Massachusetts voters support ending mandatory minimums. Here’s...
A MassINC poll out today confirms that two-thirds of Massachusetts residents support treating substance use as a public health—not criminal justice—problem. An even larger margin supports ending...
View ArticleFeds want researchers to use AI and GPS trackers to predict “risky” behavior
The National Institute for Justice, the research arm of the Department of Justice, has published an advertisement for a grant seeking proposals for projects that deploy artificial intelligence to...
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