THE COMMONWEALTH’S criminal justice reform efforts offer a unique opportunity to achieve a triple impact: improve public safety, reduce public spending on crime prevention, and redefine futures for our highest-risk […]
Molly Baldwin
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Building a developmentally appropriate justice system
YOUNG PEOPLE between the ages of 18 and 24 fill up America’s prisons and return behind bars faster than anyone else. This troubling reality is not taken lightly in Massachusetts, […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Politics
Advice to the Governor: Criminal justice overhaul is overdue
Click here for more advice for the governor Massachusetts’s criminal justice system is big, broken, and expensive. Our prisons are overcrowded and our young people continue to do harm to […]