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Northampton, Massachusetts, writer Barry Werth's latest book is "Prisoner of Lies." It's about Jack Downey, a CIA operative who was imprisoned in China for more than 20 years because the U.S. government would not acknowledge he was a spy.

George Perrot spent more than 30 years in prison for rape until 2016, when a judge ruled the evidence against him was faulty.

We chat with filmmaker and Emerson professor Bob Nesson about his film, "Holding Up the Sky," McGovern with Rep. Jim McGovern, and taste some cocktails for an impromptu Thunderdome.

The Board received more than $6 million dollars from a private foundation to address barriers impeding incarcerated individuals from receiving higher education.

Springfield WORKS, a community-wide initiative with the Western Mass Economic Development Council, has 8 partner agencies helping to connect formerly incarcerated individuals with jobs and services.

In a county jail in western Massachusetts, like in others around the U.S., officials are encouraging music lessons. Incarcerated men and women are finding the payoff is evident while locked up, and — research shows — also when they're out.

The deal calls for several changes, including the creation of a new unit for prisoners experiencing mental health crises and the appointment of an independent monitor to oversee compliance with the agreement.

Transitions Clinic Network is expanding its primary care services beyond New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport to serve more people recently released from a correctional facility.

Baker signed a new bond bill last week, but excluded a five-year prohibition on building prisons and jails, which the Legislature had signed off on.

Tiyo Attallah Salah-El was also an author, scholar and activist who died in a Pennsylvania prison in June 2018, at age 85. He’d served nearly 50 years of a life sentence for a murder he always insisted he did not commit.