For many years, Lois Ahrens has been pushing to change the nation’s prison system. The Northampton activist, who heads the Real Cost of Prisons Project, has worked with fellow activists, artists, researchers and incarcerated people to try to end.
I agree with the headline in the Gazette on May 24, “Incarceration at lowest rate in 35 years”; however, the 2020 data supplied by the Massachusetts Department of Correction does not accurately reflect where we are now.Today, the DOC receives more.
In April 2018 amid much self-congratulation, Massachusetts legislators passed into law the so-called Criminal Justice Reform Act.In addition to other sections of the law that have not been enacted and enforced was a provision requiring sheriffs and.
NORTHAMPTON A Hampshire Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed this summer by residents of Warfield Place that accused the Northampton Department of Public Works of illegally destroying nine cherry trees on their street without a proper.
Despite the false characterization of those of us who organize and advocate for the decarceration of people incarcerated at the Hampshire County jail during COVID-19 as voicing (“Inmate lauds sheriff during pandemic,” Aug. 17) “verbal hysteria” and.