From WGBH News:
A group of 20 women incarcerated at MCI-Framingham testified live on Zoom at a hearing on Monday — for the first time in legislative history.
Clad in green uniforms, each woman sat in front of a camera in a white room and spoke in favor of a prison moratorium bill. The legislation would put a five-year pause on planning or building new prisons and renovating current prisons “beyond maintenance or building code requirements.”
Their reasoning often stemmed from their own experiences, telling stories of poor medical care, concerns about limited reentry services upon entering the free world and dire conditions they experienced behind the walls of one of America’s oldest functioning prisons. Continue reading >>>
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