Newest post on Boston Magazine celebrates our "champion of change," Senator James Eldridge who was recognized for his work for disaster victims—but in Massachusetts, he’s championing equally innovative policies….

Eldridge has come up with some excellent ideas to decrease violence, arrest and imprisonment, too, all dependent on legislators passing some leading-edge criminal justice bills filed earlier this year. They hit on lessening solitary confinement, expunging the records of the falsely accused, and establishing a commission to examine correction officer and prisoner suicides.

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