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Emerson College expands higher education at MCI-Norfolk, offering incarcerated scholars a path to graduate credentials and career opportunities
Beyond The Bachelor’s: First Massachusetts In-Prison Graduate Program Launches Read Post »
So amazing to be on a panel at NBRS with the amazing panelists and for the indomitable Stacey Borden as art , a documentary and many questions flew throughout the room about the uillusion of “freedom for all.”
Here are pictures from the event taken by the wonderous Lee Francois who also produced the documentary.
New Beginnings ReEntry Service hosts ECHOES OF A PROMISE Read Post »
Parole Board candidate Kaitlyn O’Leary testifies before the Massachusetts Governor’s Council | Photo courtesy of Jean Trounstine
My newest article at Boston Institute for NonProfit Journalism is up!
SHOULD A FORMER PROSECUTOR SIT ON THE MASSACHUSETTS PAROLE BOARD? Read Post »
This holiday season, longtime BINJ prison reporter Jean Trounstine reflects on the work that cleared her path to journalism.
I first met Angie Jefferson in prison in 1992.
In 2024, there she was with two other friends, standing on my doorstep in Tewksbury.
Angie had come to my college acting class at Framingham MCI via Bertie, a Jamaican beauty shunned by others because she killed her daughter. Hurting a child is anathema to women behind bars; and while we know now it was likely post-partum depression, Bertie was deemed irredeemable. She sought refuge with nurturing women who didn’t judge, women like Angie. MORE IN BINJ
Prison Brought Us Together, But Friendship Survives Read Post »
Please read and share my newest in BINJ about this new fantastic higher-ed program that is in Worcester, MA–it offers an array of perks and classes that “fight poverty and prison and begins with this subtitle:” “Inside Clark University’s program to leverage education’s proven power to cut recidivism.” MORE
Beyond Boston: Fighting Poverty And Prison With College In Worcester Read Post »