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Man [Ricky "Fuquan" McGee] Was Released from Prison After 28 Years While Judge Considers Innocence Plea, Liz Neisloss, GBH News, October 14, 2025.
America’s Aging Prison Population Is Posing Challenges for States, Amanda Hernández, Stateline, September 29, 2025.
Trapped in Time: The Silent Crisis of Elderly Incarceration, Alyssa Gordon, Michele Deitch & Alycia Welch, Am. Civ. Liberties Union Nat’l Prison Project and the Prison & Jail Innovation Lab, Lyndon B. Johnson Sch. of Pub. Affs., Univ. of Tex. at Austin, Sept. 2025.
How to Cut the Prison Population, Save Money and Make Us Safer, German Lopez, New York Times, September 8, 2025.
More Freedom, Less Violence: Some States Look to European Prisons, Shaila Dewan, New York Times, July 26, 2025.
Healey’s secretive $360 million to ‘re-imagine’ Framingham prison for women, Guest Columnist Lois Ahrens, Daily Hampshire Gazette, July 23, 2025.
She got out. Then she gave back: How a Boston woman went from incarceration to inspiration, John L. Micek, MassLive, July 18, 2025.
The Two Faces Of Justice: Retribution And Rehabilitation In Contemporary Society, Jennifer M. Miller, IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS), Volume 30, Issue 3, Series 3, March, 2025, pp. 70-81.
THE EUGENIC ORIGINS OF THREE STRIKES LAWS: How "Habitual Offender" Sentencing Laws Were Used as a Means of Sterilization, Daniel Loehr, The Sentencing Project's Second Look Network, 2025.