Boston’s new plan to forcibly remove people from their living encampments in the area near Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard is based on criminalization — an approach that may make things worse.
Yolanda Smith, the superintendent of the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, has wanted to work in criminal justice since she was a teenager.
Smith, who was born in Savannah, Georgia and moved...
Approximately 60 people gathered in The Bill Bordy Theater at Emerson College Thursday morning for a talk with Keith Ellison, the first Muslim to be elected to U.S. Congress.
Alexandria Ellison,...
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...
