“For people who are already incarcerated, of course we should be providing them with the highest level of care possible,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells The BostonGlobe. “But paying taxpayer funds to repurpose jail-like [facilities] into ‘treatment’ is not supported by science or civil rights concerns.”
“After Willie Horton, there was this perception that the parole board would be really careful with any an all release decisions,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells
The Boston Globe. “You have this culture that over the last 30 years has been more cautious politically.”
“Representation at the top is vital to opening doors to more diverse talent and advancing policy and programs that create more equitable outcomes for all Massachusetts residents,” Betty Francisco ’98, CEO of Boston Impact Initiative Fund and co-founder of Amplify Latinx, in a co-authored piece for the Boston Business Journal.
“Real privacy data legislation would protect people regardless of what they choose, and consent to,” Professor Woodrow Hartzog tells The Boston Globe. “This legislation doesn’t seem to offer that… It’s just going to allow business as usual.”
On January 14, 2022, Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), appeared before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs to provide testimony in support of her nomination to the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.
The choosing of Boston’s next police commissioner is an opportunity to reexamine the role of police in Boston, write Professor Deborah Ramirez and Claire Bergstresser in a co-authored piece for WBUR’s Cognoscenti.
“Claiming that the lack of enforcement of other, unrelated ordinances somehow augurs in favor of overlooking this one strikes me as a red herring,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Boston Globe.