THE DYSFUNCTIONAL MASS PAROLE BOARD’S INEVITABLE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS

Massachusetts Parole Coronavirus

Please read and share my newest article on DIGBoston which begins:

“With coronavirus spreading throughout Commonwealth prisons, lawsuits filed last week denounced the Massachusetts Parole Board, calling it bothdeliberately indifferent and part of the mechanism currently violating the rights of prisoners. 

The third week of April was a milestone in many ways for those concerned with the state’s lack of response in its prisons and jails. As of April 20, 319 prisoners and staff had tested positive for COVID-19, while five prisoners had died.”

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THE FIGHT FOR LIFE IN MASSACHUSETTS

The Bay State has a fraught history of sentencing people to serve life without parole. Now lawmakers have a chance to end the bad deal Beacon Hill made to trade the death penalty for natural life sentences.

Please read and share my newest on DigBoston why we must end the sentence of Life Without Parole.