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Fighting for the Rights of Incarcerated People, March 18-19, 2025. Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI) Conference on College in Prison, at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, featuring panelists Lizz Matos, Calvin Arey, and Michael Millemann.
Twelve Ways to Heal Hurt, Alyssa Hatfield, Boston College Law School Magazine Online, December 9, 2025. Project Entrepreneur’s formerly incarcerated clients pitch businesses that serve the community.
On bail policy, Massachusetts must catch up, Kathy Naples-Mitchell, CommonWealth Beacon, November 22, 2025.
Calvin Duncan’s Unlikely Journey: Convict to Exoneree to Elected Official, Rick Rojas, NY Times, November 16, 2025. See also: He Was a Self-Taught Legal Expert in Prison. Now, He’s Running for Court Clerk, Rick Rojas and Katy Reckdahl, NY Times, November 13, 2025.
The Heart Of Dorchester: Shooter & Former Gang Leader Takes it Back To The Roots - Dae Heat, a former street soldier and now an aspiring artist, is now trying to make change in the world. His work focuses on prison stories, gang culture, street life, and addiction and recovery. Find his music at / @43ad_daeheat
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.