Please read and share my newest artiucle from Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism: UNPRECEDENTED TESTIMONY, Prisoners are Front and Center at this Historic Legislative Hearing.  It begins

“The packed room at the State House on Tuesday, July 25, was not unusual. Nor was the fact that the Joint Committee on the Judiciary scheduled in one day hearings for more than 45 bills seeking to change aspects of the Massachusetts criminal legal system. But the engagement of nearly 30 incarcerated men and women testifying remotely from five different institutions was unprecedented”