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We Hold These Truths: Artem Vaskanyan, Arlington Community Media with host Michael Jacoby Brown, June 2026.
Artem Vaskanyan escaped the Armenian - Azerbaijan conflict by fleeing to the United States. As a young teenager in a foreign country and with an abusive step-father, acclimation and survival were difficult. He eventually ended up spending over 24 years in the MA prison system and then was apprehended by ICE. In this video, he reflects on these experiences, the choices one makes under duress, and the small acts of kindness and human decency that can have an outsize effect on an individual’s path in life.
Female is a Felony, Shebri Dillon, American Criminal Law Review, Georgetown Law, Volume 63, 2026.
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.
Fast Facts: Ever Increasing Incarceration Costs in the MA DOC, Dirk E. Greineder, M.D., Ph.D., Norfolk Lifers' Group, MCI-Norfolk, Norfolk, MA, June 2025.
The average cost of incarcerating each prisoner in the MA DOC in FY2025 increased to $141,062. The DOC budget rose to $842,985,683. The population as of January 1st, 2025 was 5,976.
In 2025, 33% of MA prisoners are aged 50 or older. Drivers of aging are laws requiring mandatory Life Without Parole (LWOP) sentences for first-degree murder, plus for felony murder or joint venture cases if a death occurs during the event, whether or not the offender killed or intended to kill …
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.
Traumatized to Death: The Cumulative Effects of Serial Parole Denials, Richard Rivera, 23 CUNY L. Rev. F., 2020.