Please see my newest article in DIGBoston:
“While members of the public can listen in on this hearing for Thomas Koonce without seeing it, they are unable to record the hearing” MORE
Bronx Social Justice and Anti-Violence Forum
Honored to be interviewed on October 9th and talked a lot about juvenile justice and Boy With A Knife but also about the state of injustice in this country in a more global sense. Thanks Daren Jaime
MASS Needs to Pass Free Phone Call Bill NOW
“‘Stop profiting off our pain’: Hundreds rally to support bill eliminating charges for prison phone calls”
BOSTON (WHDH) – Demonstrators and politicians rallied at the State House Saturday to support a bill that would ban charging families to call loved ones…
This is the video from It’s a Crime: Using Technical Violations to Reincarcerate which took place on September 17, 2020. Take a look!
REVOCATION NATION
Please see and share my newest article at DIGBoston. It tells the story of the epidemic of reincarceration for technical parole violations in the age of COVID.
“Jonathan Best had been out of prison for two years when he ended a rocky relationship with his girlfriend. Like many men and women on parole—a form of early release, in which the remainder of one’s sentence is served in the community—he suffered from depression and anxiety.
At the time, Best often had to choose between paying his monthly $80 parole fee and putting food on the table. He worried that if he got pulled over for speeding, a warning would go straight to his parole officer (PO). Like many who face the stress of reentry from prisons in the US, Best sometimes coped by using drugs or alcohol. He rarely felt free.” MORE