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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.
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The Board received more than $6 million dollars from a private foundation to address barriers impeding incarcerated individuals from receiving higher education.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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While many states use civil commitment, Massachusetts is believed to be the only state that, under the law known as Section 35, court-orders some men to treatment inside jails and prisons even if they haven't committed any crimes.
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Massachusetts lawmakers are debating whether to continue supporting programs that lock people inside jails and prisons for addiction treatment.