Governor Baker is refusing to sign a law that would provide free calls in prisons and jails, holding it hostage to try to force passage of a “dangerousness” bill that would expand pre-trial incarceration. This is unconscionable. Removing charges from prison phone calls will help keep prisons safer, give children and loved ones of those […]
Thursday hearing will tackle Massachusetts bill that would provide free phone calls from prisons and jails
Thursday hearing will tackle Massachusetts bill that would provide free phone calls from prisons and jails The Berkshire EagleOctober 21, 2021By Danny Jin Working for $5 per week while behind bars, Jasmin Borges could afford just one 20-minute phone call with her daughters each week. “When I came home 12 years later, nothing could prepare […]
Editorial: The Horrors of Unfair Prison Visitation Practices
October 30, 2019
Valley Advocate
Dave Eisenstadter
Families want to end prison phone call charges
October 22, 2019
CommonWealth Magazine
Sarah Betancourt
Bill restricts use of solitary confinement
November 24, 2017 The Salem News By Christian M. Wade BOSTON — Massachusetts has some of the nation’s harshest solitary confinement rules, allowing inmates to be placed in segregated units for as long as 10 years. But the state is now poised to ease its restrictive policies as part of a wide-ranging criminal justice bill […]
Symposium voices concern, highlights dangers of solitary confinement
By Jessie Levinson The Daily Free Press March 30, 2016 As part of a weeklong call to action on current solitary confinement laws in Massachusetts, Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts hosted a symposium on solitary confinement Thursday afternoon at the New England School of Law. The symposium consisted of two panels as well as a […]
The Deplorable State Of Solitary Confinement In Massachusetts
By Bonnie Tenneriello and Daniel Medwed WGBH February 22, 2016 In late January, President Obama announced historic changes in how the federal prison system uses solitary confinement—or “segregation” as it is euphemistically called within Massachusetts’ prison system. He cited research showing that the practice can lead to “devastating, lasting psychological consequences.” Solitary confinement, he said, “doesn’t […]