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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 …
Traumatized to Death: The Cumulative Effects of Serial Parole Denials, Richard Rivera, 23 CUNY L. Rev. F., 2020.
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.
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.