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Housing is a Human Right: The Urgent Need to Reinstate HUD’s Proposed Rules Justice 4 Housing’s...
Justice 4 Housing featured in United Way’s Changemakers Series! Justice for Housing (J4H), one...
Raymond Gaines, Who Served Nearly 50 Years for Murder He Says He Didn’t Commit, Gets GPS...
New Commonwealth Fund Awards $3 million in Grants to Mass. Nonprofits Addressing Racial Inequity The...
Massachusetts Budget Vetoes Ripple Through Service Sectors Reentry services, job training programs...
New Ballot Boxes Arrive to Boston Jails this Fall New ballot boxes will be available in Suffolk...
Life After Prison: “Don’t Judge Me” GBH News Documentary Onyx White, an aspiring...
Health Care Gaps Create Reentry Hurdle for Incarcerated Individuals Leslie Credle, CEO of Justice 4...
You Can Never Get That Time Back: Solitary Confinement is Devastating for Incarcerated Mothers and...
During Second Chance Month, AG Campbell and Boston Medical Center Co-Host Reentry Roundtable BOSTON...
Returning Citizens Find Success in Boston Reentry Program Arminta Graham, one of the graduates, said...
Religious Leaders, Community Activists Call for Increased Funding to Maintain Affordable Housing...
Major Barriers Persist for Former Prisoners Who Need IDs Supreme Hassan says he was released from...
Housing Fixes, ID Cards Top of To-Do List for GBIO Forum in Ashmont Last Thursday at First Baptist...
Boston Receives Largest Ever Grant to Address Homelessness (The Center Square) – Boston Mayor...
Life After Prison: Long Journey Home GBH hosts a panel with local experts about challenges and...
Women coming home from prison get little help rebuilding Leslie Credle, executive director of...
Panel discusses barriers to housing for formerly incarcerated people Advocacy is important...
Patchwork of government services leaves former prisoners in the hands of strained nonprofits...
Boston invests $1 million to help people returning from prisons and jails Boston will distribute $1...
‘To Heal as a Society, We Have to Help with Housing’ Emily Rooney Clark ’24 helps...
Pressley, Tlaib Unveil Bill To Increase Housing Access For People With Criminal Records WASHINGTON –...
Supporters Look to Gain Support in Sealing Certain Criminal Records By Ellen Fleming BOSTON (WWLP) –...
Leslie Credle Joins Haymarket Funding Panel Leslie Credle, the Founder and Executive Director of...
The Supreme Judicial Court returned to the issue earlier this month in a case involving a Dorchester...
Elugardo answered questions from Jamaica Plain News about her candidacy, bills she's sponsored to...
Three-quarters of a million New Yorkers have convictions in their history. ‘Fair chance’ laws could...
“These extraordinary innovators should inspire us all to harness our own talents and imagination to...
On Nov. 5, ACT UP Boston, labor leaders, frontline harm reductionists, housing advocates...
300+ people took part in a 90-mile march from Springfield to the Massachusetts State Housein...
As states pass new laws to reform solitary confinement, advocates are pushing for this harmful...
Massachusetts families spend about $25 million each year on phone calls to incarcerated relatives, a...
Today, a 90-mile march, the “Long March for No New Prisons and Jails,” ended at the Massachusetts...
Activists and state representatives spoke to and reviewed acts for changes to public housing policy...
State moving forward with plan for new women’s prison despite small population...
Documents show HDR, Inc. has monitored groups that oppose its controversial plans to build jails and...
It wasn’t until in-person visits were suspended last year that Jennings realized how much it costs...
Lawmakers and courts have made headway in reforming or ending solitary, but some corrections...
Recounting stories of trauma and suffering behind bars, dozens of formerly incarcerated Bay Staters...
COVID-19 postponed trials and closed courthouses across New England, leading to concerns about...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Friday published a proposal to the...
A five-year study by the Boston Foundation makes the case that housing instability threatens the...
A man incarcerated at MCI Norfolk managed to get on the roof of one of the prison buildings Sunday...
A man incarcerated at MCI Norfolk managed to get on the roof of one of the prison buildings Sunday...
The effort to bail out Black moms before Mother's Day is more urgent than ever...
Says investing in incarceration is opposite of what Mass. needs...
The U.S. spends $81 billion a year on mass incarceration, according to the Bureau of Justice...
The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls is calling on...
The communities most affected by incarceration and violence are organizing to elect leaders to...
Democratic Reps. Cori Bush, of Missouri, and Ayanna Pressley, of Massachusetts, added their voices...
Advocate Leslie Credle on the prison lockdown after COVID...
For more than a year, the Massachusetts Department of Correction has been trying to build a new...
Testimony came from women of all ages representing numerous Metrowest communities and advocacy...
As prison outbreaks rise, the state has moved inmates forward in the line to receive inoculations...
A bombshell announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling’s office on Tuesday...
Conditions for prisoners with mental health issues at the Massachusetts Department of Correction...
One of the most well-documented harms of incarceration is the way it tears families apart. More than...
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute co-authors amicus briefs in landmark Massachusetts Supreme...
The issue of incarceration and racial justice in prisons has again become part of national debate...
The coronavirus has added an element of chaos to every system of our community. For those systems...