This video was filmed last year when I began a collaboration with artist/educator Vito Minoia to bring CLTL to Italy. Take a look at why this program works and what people in prison and educators and prison staff say about their experience doing a Changing Lives through Literature program in Pesaro Prison in Italy. For more info of the conference, go here.
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“COMPELLING” CASE IN 5-PLUS HOUR COMMUTATION HEARING
Please see my newest article at DigBoston: KOONCE MAKES “COMPELLING” CASE IN 5-PLUS HOUR COMMUTATION HEARING.
Photo of Koonce and his son, Thomas Andrews at MCI Norfolk (2012) via Koonce family
The article begins:
“On Tuesday, Oct. 27, Massachusetts held its second commutation hearing for life-sentenced prisoner Thomas Koonce, who was denied a commutation by then-Gov. Deval Patrick’s Advisory Board of Pardons in 2010. No one serving a life without parole sentence has been granted a commutation since 1997.” More
MASS TO HOLD FIRST COMMUTATION HEARING IN 10 YEARS, BUT PRESS AND PUBLIC CAN’T WATCH
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…