Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill Friday that will overhaul the criminal justice system in the Commonwealth, despite his concerns with the legislation. To address those concerns, he filed another bill to modify the legislation.
Following the Massachusetts Senate's passage of a hotly debated bill aimed at overhauling the state’s criminal justice system last month, House leaders set grounds for debate with the introduction...
The Massachusetts Senate passed a comprehensive criminal justice reform bill Friday morning which has been under consideration in various forms for the past three years.
This legislation, An Act...
The Massachusetts legislature is currently drafting comprehensive criminal justice reform legislation, which has been long-awaited by reform advocates.
The purpose of wide-ranging criminal justice...
The United States holds roughly 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated population, the highest incarceration rate of any nation, according to PolitiFact. While the statistic speaks for itself, Danza...
Lower-income Boston residents in communities of color are disproportionately impacted by incarceration, according to a report presented Thursday titled “The Geography of Incarceration.”
Roxbury...
